This Article explores an important development in American legal theory and practice over the past decade: the rise of “movement lawyering” as an alternative model of public interest advocacy focused on building the power of nonelite constituencies through integrated legal and political...

The evolution of community economic development (CED) over the past several decades has witnessed dramatic growth in scale and complexity. New approaches to development and related lawyering, and to philosophies underlying these approaches, challenge us to reimagine the framework of CED. From...

This chapter considers the relationship between private practice and the public good through the lens of an under-examined organizational form: the quot;private public interest law firm.quot; This form of practice attempts to marry profit and principle in organizations built around some vision...

What gaps exist in the justice system that result in a need for services provided by community economic development attorneys? What is the evidence that those gaps actually exist? How do we know that community economic development practitioners fill those gaps, and in what way? These are merely...

The development of large-firm pro bono programs over the past fifteen years has reflected the dual imperatives of public service and professional interests. As pro bono has become institutionalized, an increasing number of firms have demonstrated their commitment to the public interest by hiring...

There is growing scholarly interest in how community and labor groups are fashioning new legal frameworks outside of traditional labor law to facilitate worker organizing and enhance workplace standards. This Article focuses on an important and under-studied dimension of this movement: the use...

The field of labor organizing - once a site of progressive disenchantment with law - has now become a crucial locus of law's resurgence. There is mounting evidence that legal innovation is contributing to a new dynamism within the labor movement as immigrant worker centers, community-labor...

The emergence of Community Economic Development (CED) as a distinct field of cause lawyering highlights the complexities of community mobilization in the post-regulatory state. Defined by a set of social policies and grassroots practices that promote neighborhood revitalization, CED is...