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Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s

Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s

Hardcover

Series: Justice, Power, and Politics

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral LawSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1469670283
ISBN13: 9781469670287
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Oct 18 2022
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.79
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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