Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era: A Cross-National Inquiry

全球化时代的事业律师与国家：跨国调查

• 批准号: 9818366
• 负责人: Austin Sarat
• 金额: $ 3.12万
• 依托单位: Amherst College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-05-15 至 2001-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9818366&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cause; Lawyering; State; Global; Era

Democratization and globalization provide novel challenges, opportunities, and imperatives for cause lawyers throughout the world. Both developments bring new issues to the fore; provide new resources; and impose new burdens on cause lawyers working on behalf of social movements. Cause lawyers typically push for greater democratization of state processes. Democratization, in turn, energizes and legitimates cause lawyering. Yet as democratization proceeds it challenges reliance on rights-based strategies for social change, and, in so doing, may require cause lawyers to devise new approaches and work in new arenas.Globalization opens up state processes to far-reaching forces and leads to re-configurations of state power. As these global forces impinge on the state, cause lawyering itself is transformed. New possibilities for working within, as opposed to against, the state open up and new transnational alliances/networks become possible. Yet efforts by cause lawyers to take advantage of these opportunities embroil them in controversies: Are they being co-opted by state actors? Do international alliances serve primarily to advance Western interests and ideas thus promoting neo-imperialism and neo-colonialism?This project will highlight opportunities and challenges posed by democratization and globalization for cause lawyering serving different causes in different national contexts. It will examine the way cause lawyers influence, and are influenced by, the transformations in modern and modernizing states brought on by globalization and democratization. The former typically involves an upward or outward movement of power away from the state, the latter an inward or downward movement from the state to civil society. We are interested in investigating the varying roles of cause lawyers in bringing about as well as in responding to these changes.This proposal provides support to convene an international conference, drawing together investigators from nine nations, to take up these issues. This conference represents the culmination of several years of collaborative work in which common theoretical concerns have been identified. Drawing on theories of globalization and democratization, each participant will present the results of new research on cause lawyering and the state. AT the conference our focus will be on penultimate drafts of papers reporting the results of finished research projects. Findings from these projects will be used to address the theoretical interests that drive this project, weave underlying themes of the project (globalization, democratization, and the state) through all of the papers, and to elaborate hypotheses that emerge from our inquiry. The overall objective of the conference is to insure the coherence of the final product: an edited book expected to be published in fall of 2000 or early in the spring of 2001.

民主化和全球化为全世界的公益律师提供了新的挑战、机遇和必要条件。 这两个发展都带来了新的问题，提供了新的资源，并给代表社会运动工作的律师带来了新的负担。 因为律师通常会推动国家程序的更大民主化。 民主化反过来又为律师业注入活力并使其合法化。 然而，随着民主化进程的推进，它对依赖以权利为基础的社会变革战略提出了挑战，在这样做的过程中，可能需要律师们设计新的方法，在新的领域开展工作。 随着这些全球性的力量冲击着国家，律师行业本身也发生了变化。 在国家内部工作而不是反对国家的新的可能性打开了，新的跨国联盟/网络成为可能。 然而，事业律师利用这些机会的努力使他们卷入了争议：他们是否被国家行为者拉拢？ 国际联盟是否主要是为了促进西方的利益和思想，从而促进新帝国主义和新殖民主义？该项目将突出民主化和全球化给在不同国家背景下为不同事业服务的公益律师带来的机遇和挑战。 它将研究如何使律师的影响，并受到影响，在现代和现代化国家的全球化和民主化带来的转变。 前者通常涉及权力远离国家的向上或向外运动，后者则是从国家向公民社会的向内或向下运动。 我们有兴趣调查事业律师在带来以及在应对这些变化的不同作用。这一建议提供了支持，以召开一次国际会议，吸引来自九个国家的调查人员，以解决这些问题。这次会议代表了几年的合作工作的高潮，其中共同的理论问题已经确定。 根据全球化和民主化的理论，每个参与者将提出对事业律师和国家的新研究成果。 在会议上，我们的重点将是报告已完成研究项目结果的论文倒数第二稿。 这些项目的发现将用于解决推动本项目的理论兴趣，通过所有论文编织本项目的基本主题（全球化，民主化和国家），并阐述从我们的调查中出现的假设。 会议的总目标是确保最后产品的连贯性：预计将于2000年秋季或2001年春初出版一本经过编辑的书。