CAUSE LAWYERING IN TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE - NATIONAL CONFLICT AND HUMAN-RIGHTS IN ISRAEL PALESTINE/

There is an interest among scholars working on cause lawyering to ''gl obalize'' the subject by studying professional and political networks that span national boundaries. The globalizing scope of human rights p rovides a particularly relevant perspective, complementing the more na rrowly attenuated focus on the roles and activities of cause lawyers. The subjects of this article are Israeli and Palestinian cause lawyers who have worked in the Israeli military court system in the Occupied Territories. This study adopts a transnational perspective both becaus e the context itself (Israel/Palestine) is composed of relations that span national boundaries (statal and ethnonational) and because it bef its a consideration of the international networks of human rights. Fol lowing an introductory discussion of transnationalism and a brief back ground on Israel/Palestine and the military courts, I turn to three as pects of cause lawyering: the political motivations inspiring lawyers to engage in such work; a comparative assessment of the legal and extr alegal strategies pursued by lawyers; and the influence of human right s on the politics of lawyering in this context.