Up Against the Law (eBook)

Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s

Luca Falciola (Autor)

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2022
412 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7030-0 (ISBN)

Infos

As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America's most confrontational activists. In pursuit of radical change themselves, these militant attorneys went beyond providing mere representation. They identified with their clients, defied the habits of a conservative profession, and formulated a corrosive critique of the legal system, questioning the neutrality and transformative power of law. While exploiting the courtrooms as political forums, they developed aggressive litigation strategies and became involved with the organization of protest. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, historian Luca Falciola reconstructs this largely unmapped phenomenon and challenges the reader to think anew about the pivotal role of lawyers in social movements.At the heart of this book is the story of the National Lawyers Guild. Founded in 1937, the Guild represented the first integrated and progressive bar association of America. The Guild returned to prominence in the early 1960s, at the vanguard providing legal aid to civil rights workers in the South. Since then, leftist students, disobedient soldiers, rebellious inmates, radical minorities, and revolutionary groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Weather Underground have relied on this cadre of sympathetic lawyers to defend and empower them.

Autor

Luca Falciola is lecturer in history at Columbia University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1968 Democratic National Convention • Anti-Imperialism • Benjamin Spock • Bernardine Dohrn • Bobby Seale • Catonsville Nine • Center for Constitutional Rights • Charles Garry • Chicago eight • COINTELPRO • Columbia University protests of 1968 • Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) • domestic terrorism in the USA • draft resistance and evasion • federal grand juries • First Amendment litigation • Freedom Summer • Free Speech Movement • Gainesville Eight • Huey Newton • Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman • Leonard Boudin • mass defense • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party • NAACP Legal Defense Fund • Oakland Seven • Panther 21 • policing of protest • sncc • Soledad Brothers • Tom Hayden • United Farm Workers • Wounded Knee 1973 occupation • Young Lords
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7030-5 / 1469670305
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7030-0 / 9781469670300