Memoir of defense lawyer who was active during the 1960s. She shares her experiences representing prominent Soviet dissidents and the extent to which the bar association supported her.
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Lehoucq and Taylor (2019), Conceptualizing Legal Mobilization: How Should We Understand the Deployment of Legal Strategies?
Sets forth a systematic conceptualization of legal mobilization and situates it within a typology of uses of the law.
Müller (1992), Hitler’s Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich
The role of the legal institution during the rise of Nazi Germany.
Sommerlad, Abel, and Hammerslev (2022), Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies: Vol. 2: Comparisons and Theories
Since 1988, global shifts—driven by neoliberalism, globalization, technological change, and the fall of the Soviet bloc—have transformed the legal profession, prompting a comparative analysis of its structure, roles, and challenges across issues like diversity, ethics, access to justice, and legal education.
Wald (2025), The Role of Lawyers in Mature Democracies When the Rule of Law is Under Attack
A deep dive into the argument for how lawyers, particularly in mature legal systems, must move beyond passive roles and actively defend the rule of law in response to growing threats to democratic principles.
Glendon (1996), A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis in the Legal Profession Is Transforming American Society
Glendon outlines the changes within the legal system and offers her assessment of the people and ideas that are transforming our law-dependent culture.
Shortage of immigration judges could slow down Trump deportation goals
The Trump administration has created a major bottleneck in the immigration court system by firing over two dozen immigration judges and prompting the resignation or reassignment of more than 100 others, resulting in a 70% …
Read the DOJ memo barring employees from participating in American Bar Ass’n events
On April 9, 2025, Law Dork published the full DOJ memo in which Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche formally prohibited Justice Department employees from participating in American Bar Association (ABA) events in any official capacity. …
US Justice Dept bars its attorneys from participating in American Bar Association events
On April 9, the U.S. Department of Justice, under the Trump administration, announced it will no longer allow its attorneys to attend or speak at events hosted by the American Bar Association (ABA). In a …
Attorney General Bondi Threatens ABA’s Role as Law School Accreditor Over Diversity Standards
In a February 28, 2025 letter, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi called on the American Bar Association’s Council of the Section of Legal Education to eliminate its diversity and inclusion requirements for law schools. Bondi …