Features:

• The first comprehensive overview of the broad range of contemporary issues faced by public interest lawyers in any American law school text.
• Thorough discussion of important theoretical issues about the scope and definition of public interest lawyering.
• Addresses American public interest law from a historical perspective with focus on current issues.
• Expansive examination of the settings in which public interest practice occurs, including nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and private law firms.
• Presents the advantages and limits of different legal strategies in public interest practice, including lobbying, public education, community organizing, and community economic development.
• Addresses contemporary challenges of public interest law in context, including economics and financing, legal ethics, the role of legal education, and the globalization of public interest practice.
• Discusses critiques of public interest law, including a reflection about the role of lawyers in social movements that addresses contemporary critiques.
• Ethical obligations of public interest lawyers.
• Explores special issues related to lawyer-client relations in social change contexts.
• Extensive coverage of:
  • Models of law reform organizations.
  • Conservative cause lawyering.
  • Government lawyers.
  • The economics of social change lawyering.
  • Global social change lawyering.