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Susan D. Carle

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Conceptions Of Agency In Social Movement Scholarship: Mack On African American Civil Rights Lawyers [Comments], Susan D. Carle Dec 2013

Conceptions Of Agency In Social Movement Scholarship: Mack On African American Civil Rights Lawyers [Comments], Susan D. Carle

Susan D. Carle

This essay examines the theory of individual agency that propels the central thesis in Kenneth Mack's Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer (2012)-namely, that an important yet understudied means by which African American civil rights lawyers changed conceptions of race through their work was through their very performance of the professional role of lawyer. Mack shows that this performance was inevitably fraught with tension and contradiction because African American lawyers were called upon to act both as exemplary representatives of their race and as performers of a professional role that traditionally had been reserved for whites …

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What It Means To Be A Lawyer In These Uncertain Times: Some Thoughts On Ethical Participation In The Legal Education Industry, Susan D. Carle Dec 2013

What It Means To Be A Lawyer In These Uncertain Times: Some Thoughts On Ethical Participation In The Legal Education Industry, Susan D. Carle

Susan D. Carle

Discusses legal employment and salary and how legal education can address the current market.

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Introduction: Symposium On Lawyers’ Special Responsibilities As Public Citizens In A Rapidly Changing World , Susan D. Carle Oct 2012

Introduction: Symposium On Lawyers’ Special Responsibilities As Public Citizens In A Rapidly Changing World , Susan D. Carle

Susan D. Carle

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Re-Envisioning Models For Pro Bono Lawyering: Some Historical Reflections, Susan D. Carle Oct 2012

Re-Envisioning Models For Pro Bono Lawyering: Some Historical Reflections, Susan D. Carle

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The Effect Of Context On Practice [Book Review], Susan D. Carle Dec 2003

The Effect Of Context On Practice [Book Review], Susan D. Carle

Susan D. Carle

A book review of the work Divorce Lawyers at Work: Varieties of Professionalism in Practice, by Lynn Mather, Craig McEwen & Richard J. Maiman. Oxford University Press 2001. Pp. 244. $60.00.

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How Should We Theorize Class Interests In Thinking About Professional Regulation: The Early Naacp As A Case Example, Susan D. Carle Dec 2002

How Should We Theorize Class Interests In Thinking About Professional Regulation: The Early Naacp As A Case Example, Susan D. Carle

Susan D. Carle

INTRODUCTION
The Editors of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy have specifically requested that I address in this essay some research I finished quite a while ago, but to which I hope to return in the near future, concerning the history of the first national legal committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). (1) Therefore, I plan to raise a big picture question left unanswered by that earlier research here: how should we understand lawyers' class interests in relation to their involvement in the development of legal ethics rules concerning public interest law …

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