
Legal Mobilization for Human Rights
Grainne de Burca(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 15. April 2022
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-0-19-286657-8 (ISBN)
Description
The traditionally top-down focus in human rights scholarship on laws, institutions, and courts has begun to turn towards a bottom-up focus on activists, advocacy groups, affected communities, and social movements. The essays collected in Legal Mobilization for Human Rights examine a range of issues including which groups claim rights, what they are mobilizing to protect, the goals they pursue, the forums they use, the obstacles they encounter, and the extent of their success or failure. Case studies reveal key themes such as: the importance of human rights to marginalized communities; how political and societal authoritarianism shapes opportunities for effective mobilization; the importance of the choice of forum for instigating change; the role intermediary actors such as NGOs play in innovating strategies to address challenges; the possibilities for subaltern mobilization to reshape human rights law; and the importance of supporting genuinely community-led legal mobilization.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
374 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-286657-8 (9780192866578)
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Legal Mobilization for Human Rights
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Legal Mobilization for Human Rights
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Person
Grainne de Burca is Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at NYU, author of Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era (OUP, 2021), and co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I.CON) .
Editor
Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of LawFlorence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law, New York University
Content
1: Grainne de Burca: Introduction 2: Lynette J. Chua: LGBTQ+ Rights Mobilization and Authoritarianism 3: Christine Chinkin: Women, Peace and Security: A Human Rights Agenda? 4: Rebecca Lock & Lisa Vanhala: International NGOs and the (Non) Mobilization of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change: An Inconvenient Frame? 5: Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito & Carlos Andres Baquero-Diaz: Reframing Indigenous Rights: The Right to Consultation and the Rights of Nature and Future Generations in the Sarayaku Legal Mobilization 6: Margaret Satterthwaite: Critical Legal Empowerment for Human Rights