| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jules Lobel. Success Without Victory: Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America. New York: New York University Press. 2003. Pp. x, 319. $32.95.

Justice, Drucilla Cornell has argued, "is precisely what eludes our full knowledge." While always present to law, it is never completely realized in law. Confronting this tension in law is the distinctive work of "cause lawyers," wherever they practice, and whatever cause they serve. Cause lawyers use their professional skills to move law away from the daily reality of injustice and toward a particular vision of the good. It is their work to give content to the "impossibility" of justice. Jules Lobel's book is an interesting, and very readable, exploration of the deferral of justice that cause lawyers confront in their daily struggles in courts throughout the United States, struggles which they often lose. It is an optimistic, almost triumphialist account of the ways today's courtroom defeat may become tomorrow's political or cultural victory.

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