Ronen Shamir and Sara Chinski. “Destruction of Houses and Construction of a Cause: Lawyers and Bedouins in the Israeli Courts.” In Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities. Eds. Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, pp. 227–257. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1998.
This chapter highlights how lawyers representing Bedouin clients engage in cause lawyering by challenging state enforcement of planning laws that criminalize Bedouin construction, framing their legal advocacy as part of a broader struggle to address historical marginalization and cultural oppression under Israeli state control. These attorneys navigate a complex legal and political landscape, using the law both to resist state power and to assert the rights of a vulnerable community within an authoritarian-leaning framework.