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Journal Article
Faith in community: Representing \colored town\
2007
Overview
Community lawyering is all about faith, faith in others and faith outside the law. For progressive lawyers working in the fields of civil rights and poverty law, faith is expressed in the professional norms of legal-political activism. Ours is the positivist faith of the lawyer-engineer laboring inside the law. Positivism imbues legal-political activists with a deeply held belief in the inexorable progress of law and social reform. Even when our labor falters or the agents and institutions of the law thwart our progress, we hold fast to a reformist conviction accrued from a half century of engagement in political and legal struggle. This belief leads to an almost empirical confidence in lawyer-fashioned solutions crafted from a mix of accumulated judgment and technocratic expertise. Although tempered by the two decades-long retrenchment of the Rehnquist Court and the retreat of the Roberts Court from the civil rights horizons of the late twentieth century, that confidence, albeit diminished, remains unbroken.
