The Community Paralegal Movement and the Pursuit of Justice

Human Rights

The Community Paralegal Movement and the Pursuit of Justice

Edited by Vivek Maru · Varun Gauri
Cambridge University Press December 2018

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ISBN-13
9781107159716
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
December 2018
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The UN estimates that 4 billion people worldwide live outside the protection of the law. These people can be driven from their land, intimidated by violence, and excluded from society. This book is about community paralegals - sometimes called barefoot lawyers - who demystify law and empower people to advocate for themselves. Paralegals date back to 1950s South Africa and are active today in many countries. But their role has largely been ignored by researchers.

The Community Paralegal Movement and the Pursuit of Justice is the first book on the subject. Focusing on paralegal movements in six countries, Maru, Gauri, and their co-authors have collected rich, vivid stories of paralegals helping clients to take on injustice, from domestic violence to unlawful mining to denial of wages. From these stories emerges evidence of what works and how. The insights in the book will be of immense value in the global fight for universal justice.

Table of Contents

1. Paralegal in comparative perspective - what have we learned across these six countries? Vivek Maru and Varun Gauri
2. 'To whom do the people take their issues?' The contribution of community-based paralegals to access to justice in South Africa Jackie Dugard and Katherine Drage
3. Community-based paralegalism in the Philippines: from social movements to democratization Jennifer Franco, Hector Soliman and Maria Roda Cisnero
4. Paralegalism in Indonesia: balancing relationships in the shadow of the law Ward Berenschot and Taufik Rinaldi
5. Kenya's community-based paralegals: a tradition of grassroots legal activism Abigail Moy
6. Squeezing justice out of a broken system: community paralegals in Sierra Leone Vivek Maru, Lyttelton Braima and Gibrill Jalloh
7. The contributions of community-based paralegals in delivering access to justice in postwar Liberia Peter Chapman and Chelsea Payne.
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