Michalowski (1998), “All or Nothing: An Inquiry into the (Im)Possibility of Cause Lawyering under Cuban Socialism”
This chapter explores whether cause lawyering can exist within Cuba’s socialist legal system.
This chapter explores whether cause lawyering can exist within Cuba’s socialist legal system.
This article analyzes how cause lawyering emerged and thrived in Hong Kong under authoritarian conditions.
This article critically examines American assumptions about the development of the legal profession in China.
This article explores the political positioning of lawyers in Hong Kong, challenging conventional theories in the sociology of professions that focus on status and market control.
This article explores the development and significance of these parallel legal personnel systems in China’s legal modernization.
This article examines the fragile state of the rule of law in Russia, highlighting its complicated relationship with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) since Russia ratified the European Convention in 1998.
This article includes a call for greater caution in representing non-state orderings as law, noting that traditional markers of legal authority, such as legislators and judges, remain largely tied to the state framework.
This article argues that moments of political upheaval shape the legal profession’s collective identity, showing how divergent experiences under authoritarianism in Taiwan led judges, lawyers, and prosecutors to develop distinct normative commitments based on their roles in resisting or navigating state power during democratization.
This chapter argues that in authoritarian and transitional contexts like Egypt, the evolving precarity of the legal profession transforms cause lawyers into adaptive, embedded actors who blend legal advocacy with grassroots activism to resist repression and support social movements.
This article examines how cause lawyers and allied actors collectively resist restrictive EU migration policies during the Canary Islands crisis by strategically using legal and human rights tools to challenge exclusionary practices.