Tommaso Pavone. “Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality.” Law & Social Inquiry, vol. 4, no. 3 (2024): 1921-1930.
Drawing on extensive interviews with cause lawyers in conflict and transitional settings, this article challenges conventional assumptions by showing how lawyers often mobilize against co-opted bar associations, align with contentious social movements, and reject traditional courtroom strategies in favor of activism that exposes judicial complicity and state repression—offering new directions for socio-legal research.