See eg CainMaureen, ‘The Symbol Traders’ in CainMaureen and HarringtonChristine B (eds), Lawyers In A Postmodern World (1994) 15–48. See generally on law and lawyers, GhaiYash, LuckhamRobin, SnyderFrancis (eds), The Political Economy of Law: A Third World Reader (1987).
2.
See SakellaropoulosSpyros, ‘Towards a Declining State? The Rise of the Headquarters State’ (2007) 71(1) Science and Society7–32. He argues that the state has been transformed, hiving off and/or reducing its social functions, and becoming more authoritarian. We argue that this calls forth resistance which increasingly involves lawyers in political struggle.
3.
See BlackJonathan (ed), Radical Lawyers (1971); LefcourtRobert (ed), Law Against the People (1971). See generally, WeisbrotDavid, Australian lawyers (1990) Chs 2,3. See also regarding Australia, RossStan, Politics of Law Reform (1982) and RossStan and WeinbergMark (eds), Law for the People (1976).
4.
See IshayMicheline R, History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Era of Globalisation (2004). See generally IshayMicheline R (ed), The Human Rights Reader (2nd ed, 2007). And see O'NeillNickRiceSimonDouglasRoger, Retreat from Injustice: Human rights law in Australia (2002).
5.
On conceptions of non-traditional lawyering, see generally CainMaureen and HarringtonChristine B (eds), Lawyers in a Postmodern World (1994) Chs 1–3,11.
See ‘Hero's welcome for defiant judge’, 7 May 2007; BenjaminMedea, ‘Who Is Defending Pakistan's Democracy? Not the Politicians, It's the Judges'’ 29 November 2007, <alternet.org/story/69164/> at 28 August 2008. Wrangling between major parties over the conditions of reinstatement further stained the reputation of the politicians, see ‘Irate Chaudry set to refuse job’, 10 May 2008, 14.
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For a full set of references to the French lawyers' struggle, largely from the French media, see Stuart Russell, ‘French lawyers take to the barricades’ unpublished memo, 6 January 2008 (available from the author: <jsrussell301254@hotmail.com>). The conflicts within the legal professions in our study have not been discussed but certainly need to be acknowledged. The French case is well demonstrated by the repressive role played by the criminal courts in response to rioting in the poor suburbs of Paris. See LantierAlex, France: Drumhead tribunals and threats of police state repression (30 November 2007) World Socialist Web Site <wsws.org/articles/2007/nov2007/fran-n30_prn.shtml> at 28 August 2008; LerougetelAntoine, France: A sharp increase in police repression (20 December 2007) <wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/fran-d20_prn.shtml> at 28 August 2008.
9.
See generally on the French tradition of protest, PellouxPatrick, Histoire d'urgences (2000).
See generally BoehringerGill H, ‘Philippine “Elections”? Democracy subverted’ (2007) 32(3) Alternative Law Journal172; BoehringerGill H, ‘Terror Behind Sham Filipino Democracy’, <bulatlat.com> June 24–30 (2007) VII (20); BoehringerGill H, ‘Resistance to Killings as Arroyo Falters'’, <bulatlat.com> August 19–25 (2007) VII(28).
12.
On the culture of impunity in the country and lack of successful prosecutions in the killings and disappearances of lawyers and other human rights activists, see for example Human Rights Watch‘Scared Silent: Impunity for EJKs in the Philippines'’ <hrw.org/reports/2007/philippines0607/> at 28 August 2008. See also the Karapatan Monitor, published in English quarterly by Karapatan (Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples' Rights), <karapatan.org> at 28 August 2008; the report of a request from the Chief Justice R S Puno to the Philippine National Police, ‘Puno Asks PNP to Hasten Probe On Judge's Slay’, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 16 January 2008. For a general analysis of the situation facing human rights lawyers in the Philippines and elsewhere today, see BoehringerGill H, ‘GlobalUSAtion: Lawyers, Human Rights and the Contradictions of Legal Order’, Conference paper delivered in Hong Kong, June 2008 (available from the author at <gill.boehringer@humn.mq.edu.au>).
13.
See CervantesRuth, ‘Defending human rights, Resisting Terrorism: The Philippines Experience’ Conference paper delivered in Hong Kong, June 2008 (available from the author, Information Officer of Karapatan, at <ruth.cervantes@gmail.com>). See also AraoDanilo Arana, ‘The Human Security Act and Philippine Journalism’ at the website of the Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project, <rightsreporting.net> at 28 August 2008.
