Abstract
Since the civil rights movement aimed to put an end to the segregation of black Americans in the United States in the 1960 and 1970s, the cause lawyer is considered an important actor in social and political mobilizations. Cause lawyering even became a privileged and widespread means of collective action for the last twenty years in the wake of the “judicialization of politics” (Tate and Vallinder 1995). The transfer of the treatment of political questions to courts has indeed turned legal skills into political capital and legal professionals into experts in cause building at the political level. From the defense of disadvantaged and minority groups to sectarian sociopolitical interests, cause lawyers are now believed to play a role in the democratic game and cause lawyering is no longer seen as a transgressive activity.
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Sallon, H. (2009). Lawyering for the Cause of the Arab Minority in Israel. In: Marteu, E. (eds) Civil Organizations and Protest Movements in Israel. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230621749_9
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