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Public Interest Lawyering: A Contemporary Perspective

Alan K. Chen, Scott Cummings

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  • ISBN: 9780735570832

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    Public Interest Lawyering is the first comprehensive analysis of public interest lawyering that is suitable as a law school elective text and/or advanced legal profession courses and seminars. Drawing upon a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this timely textbook examines the lives of public interest lawyers, the clients and causes they serve, the contexts within which they work, the strategies they deploy, and the challenges they face today.

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    Page Count 592
    Published 12/21/2012
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    PART I: WHO PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYERS ARE

    CHAPTER 1: DEFINING PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYERING

    CHAPTER 2: AMERICAN PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYERING: FROM PAST TO PRESENT

    CHAPTER 3: POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYERING

    PART II: WHAT PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYERS DO

    CHAPTER 4: PRACTICE SITES FOR PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYERING

    CHAPTER 5: PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY STRATEGIES

    CHAPTER 6: THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYER-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP

    PART III: CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES FOR PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYERING

    CHAPTER 7: LEGAL ETHICS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

    CHAPTER 8: EDUCATING PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYERS: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES

    CHAPTER 9: PUBLIC INTEREST LAWYERING IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

    PART IV: EPILOGUE

    CHAPTER 10: NEW DIRECTIONS, ONGOING CHALLENGES

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    Scott Cummings

    Scott Cummings teaches Business Associations, Professional Responsibility, and Community Economic Development, and is faculty chair of the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. His scholarship focuses on the organization and practice of public interest law, and he is currently working on a book that examines the role of public interest lawyers in the movement to transform the Los Angeles low-wage economy.

    In law school, Professor Cummings served as executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He clerked for Judge A. Wallace Tashima of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge James B. Moran of the Northern District of Illinois. In 1996, Professor Cummings was awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work in the Community Development Project at Public Counsel in Los Angeles, where he provided transactional legal assistance to nonprofit organizations and small businesses engaged in community revitalization efforts.

    Alan Chen

    Alan Chen is a nationally recognized expert in constitutional law, federal courts and civil rights litigation. He pursues research in a variety of fields, including federal remedies for civil rights violations, free speech doctrine and theory, and lawyering for social change. Chen has published many scholarly articles, and his work has appeared in several of the country’s leading law journals. He is a past chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Civil Rights. Chen is also interested in linking theory to practice. In recent years, he has litigated two high-profile, pro bono civil rights cases in the federal courts. One case challenged law enforcement officers’ use of pepper spray to subdue peaceful environmental protesters in California. The other lawsuit invalidated a Colorado law mandating that all students and teachers recite the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools. Since joining the University of Denver Sturm College of Law faculty in 1992, Chen has received awards for teaching, contributions to the law review and pro bono legal work. Before entering teaching, Chen was a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Chicago office, where he was a civil liberties litigator focusing primarily on cases concerning the First Amendment, police misconduct and privacy rights. Before that, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Marvin E. Aspen, U.S. District Court judge for the Northern District of Illinois.

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