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Public interest law

Here are entered works on the practice of law in a non-profit setting aimed at bettering society, including such activities as issue-oriented work for the purpose of influencing public policy, client-oriented work on behalf of individuals who are under-represented in the legal system, defending important rights belonging to a significant segment of the public, etc.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Practice of law
• Public interest

• Legal services

• Public interest law -- United States
• Class actions (Civil procedure)

• Law, Public interest
• Pro bono publico legal services
• Public interest -- Law and legislation

• Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal (and predecessor title, 1980-) (full serial archives)

• Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Timothy D. Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Permitting Bataan Death March Prisoners to Sue in U.S. Court of Claims: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 3188 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Vivek Maru and Varun Gauri (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Working with the Courts in Child Protection (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by William G. Jones (PDF at govinfo.gov)

• Poverty Law Report, by Southern Poverty Law Center (partial serial archives)

• Under Arrest! Workers' Self-Defense in the Courts (pamphlet #5; ca. 1933), by International Labor Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is the I.L.D.? (New York: International Labor Defense, 1934), by International Labor Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor Defense: Manifesto, Resolutions, Constitution: Adopted by the First National Conference, Held in Ashland Auditorium, Chicago, June 28, 1925 (Chicago: International Labor Defense, ca. 1925), by International Labor Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Case for Community Defense in New Orleans (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2006), by Christopher Muller (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• The State of Justice (Hamlyn Lectures, #51; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2000), by Michael Zander (PDF in the UK)

• Called by Stories: Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2000), by Milner S. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)

• Law and Markets: Is Canada Inheriting America's Litigious Legacy? (1997), ed. by John Robson and Owen Lippert (HTML at Fraser Institute)

• Address of the Hon. I. P. Christiancy to the Graduating Class of the Law Department of the Michigan University, by Isaac Peckham Christiancy (page images at MOA)

• Pro Se Handbook: The Manual for the Litigant Filing Without Counsel (published by the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, 1995), by Le Parker (PDF with commentary at idaholegalaid.org)

• Étude sur les Plaidoyers d'Isée (thesis in French; Paris: E. Thorin, 1876), by Léon Moy
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Old Man Tutt (c1938), by Arthur Train (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Tutt and Mr. Tutt, by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text)
• By Advice of Counsel: Being Adventures of the Celebrated Firm of Tutt and Tutt, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, by Arthur Train, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Under Arrest! Workers' Self-Defense in the Courts (pamphlet #5; ca. 1933), by International Labor Defense (page images at HathiTrust)

• Power and Market: Government and the Economy (second edition, 1977), by Murray N. Rothbard (PDF at mises.org)
• Man, Economy, and State; with Power and Market (scholar's edition, 2004), by Murray N. Rothbard, contrib. by Joseph R. Stromberg (HTML and PDF at mises.org)
• The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Judith A. Swanson (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Public Philosophy Journal (2018-) (full serial archives)

• For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Robert B. Fairbanks (PDF at Ohio State)

• Public Values Leadership: Striving to Achieve Democratic Ideals (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), by Barry Bozeman and Michael M. Crow (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c2009), by Allan J. McDonald, contrib. by James R. Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Covert Operation: Report of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session (4 volumes, first labeled "draft report", others labeled exhibit appendixes; Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• For Merit and Honesty in Government: The Role of the Special Counsel (1980), by United States Merit Systems Protection Board Office of the Special Counsel (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Whistleblower's Handbook: How to Be an Effective Resister (based on the 1999 edition, with some modifications), by Brian Martin (PDF with commentary in Australia)