Lawyers In Conflict And Transition (Cambridge Studies In Law And Society)

This book is about what lawyers do in challenging contexts of conflict, authoritarianism, and the transition from violence. It is also, inevitably, about law, politics, and the ways in which lawyers engage with both. There is, of course, much academic discussion on law as an instrument of repression, a means of legitimating authoritarian regimes, and as a key element of how societies in transition deal with the legacy of a violent past. Our analysis is naturally informed by such scholarship. However, our primary focus is upon lawyers as 'real people' working in really difficult circumstances. To find out more about lawyering was like in such contexts, we conducted over 130 interviews in six sites - Cambodia, Chile, Israel, Palestine, South Africa, and Tunisia (see further below). We then framed that incredibly rich fieldwork in the sociology of the legal profession in general and cause-lawyering scholarship in particular to better understand the strategies, tactics, actions, and lived experiences of lawyers in these pressurised environments. In addition, in the individual chapters below, we also draw eclectically from the literature on professionalism, sociology, political science, memory studies, transitional justice and a range of other frameworks in order to try to better understand and explain the experiences of those 'real lawyers' we interviewed--

• | Author: Kieran Mcevoy|Louise Mallinder|Anna Bryson
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 16, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 438 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0521664780
• | ISBN-13: 9780521664783