This chapter explores how the AJI engaged in international campaigns against fascism and repression, using legal analysis, public advocacy, and symbolic trials to advance their cause.
This chapter explores the professional ideologies and levels of political commitment among lawyers who work for conservative and libertarian causes.
This chapter examines how cause lawyers in Israel played a crucial role in encouraging the High Court of Justice (HCJ) to challenge religious authorities, marking a shift from judicial coexistence to conflict.
This articel argues that while the law’s capacity for political change is limited, it remains a vital tool for exposing systemic contradictions and advancing resistance amid tensions between submission and subversion.
This chapter explores whether cause lawyering can exist within Cuba’s socialist legal system.
This chapter examines how cause lawyers in Argentina and Brazil have engaged with grassroots social movements amid transitions from military rule to democratic consolidation.
This chapter highlights how lawyers 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.
This article analyzes how cause lawyering emerged and thrived in Hong Kong under authoritarian conditions.
This chapter examines how Israeli and Palestinian cause lawyers have helped build a human rights movement focused on the Occupied Territories.
This article examines the pivotal role of Hong Kong lawyers in the pro-democracy movement.