Preface Part One. Introduction ONE: Lawyers and Social Movements Now: Critical Traditions and New Directions Part Two. Integrated Advocacy: Movements in Progressive Legal Practice TWO: A History of Lawyers in Social Movements THREE: Movement Lawyering in the New Millennium Part Three. Divided Theory: Movements in Progressive Legal Thought FOUR: The Law-Politics Problem FIVE: Legal Liberalism and Its Discontents SIX: The Empirical Path of Law and Social Movements SEVEN: The Promise and Problems of Movement Liberalism Part Four. An Integrated Theory of Lawyers and Social Movements EIGHT: Division: Fault Lines and Fundamental Problems NINE: Synthesis: Integrated Theory for Integrated Advocacy Part Five. Applying Theory to Practice TEN: Reframing the Foundational Critiques ELEVEN; Rethinking the Progressive Canon Part Six. Conclusion TWELVE: Past as Future? Reclaiming Legal Liberalism in Illiberal Times Notes Bibliography Index

A sweeping and critical engagement with the legal, political science, and sociology literatures on social movements and law, Lawyers and Movements reveals the synergies and disconnects among theories of law and social change. Scott Cummings develops a new theoretical framework that spans several institutional contexts to offer a richer account of how lawyers participate in social movements." -Catherine Albiston, University of California, Berkeley

"A sweeping and critical engagement with the legal, political science, and sociology literatures on social movements and law, Lawyers and Movements reveals the synergies and disconnects among theories of law and social change. Scott Cummings develops a new theoretical framework that spans several institutional contexts to offer a richer account of how lawyers participate in social movements." -Catherine Albiston, University of California, Berkeley "Scott Cummings has written a pathbreaking book on the changing roles of lawyers in social movement struggles. Cummings develops an 'integrated' macro-theory to match the organizationally, tactically, and institutionally 'integrated' activist lawyering practices in the post-Brown civil rights era. His analysis is remarkably erudite, analytically sophisticated, historically astute, empirically grounded, and highly original. The book is mandatory reading for anyone interested in contemporary lawyering for progressive social change." -Michael McCann, University of Washington "While legal strategies are certainly important for social movements, mainstream research in the field has rarely addressed in depth their modes of interventions and the legal theorization as well as the practices behind them. This precious book offers a very rich, systematic and innovative approach to lawyers' roles in social movement advocacy, locating them within transformations in the political economy as well as the development of the profession." -Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore

Scott L. Cummings is the Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics and Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. He is faculty director of the Program on Legal Ethics and the Profession, and a longtime member of the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.

Selling point: Presents new theory of why and how lawyers matter to social change Selling point: Shows why historical critiques of lawyers are misguided Selling point: Demonstrates centrality of lawyers and legal mobilization to contemporary social movements with cutting-edge examples