This review examines recent scholarship on the rise of international human rights law and proposes that social movements have played critical roles both in elevating the standards of …
Y Dezalay, BG Garth - Lawyer, Economists, and the Contest to …, 2002 - cambridge.org
" This book will make a major contribution toward our understanding of what lies beneath such slogans as' globalization.'The authors use the tools of structural sociology to reveal …
Karen Alter's work on the European Court of Justice heralded a new level of sophistication in the political analysis of the controversial institution, through its combination of legal …
MM Francis - Law & Society Review, 2019 - cambridge.org
What influence do funders have on the development of civil rights legal mobilization? Fundraising is critical to the creation, operation, and survival of rights organizations. Yet …
E Michelson - American Journal of Sociology, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article uses the case of Chinese lawyers, their professional troubles, and their coping strategies to build on and develop the concept of political embeddedness. Data from a first …
" Human need is a central but contested concept in social policy and the social sciences. This book provides an accessible overview of the subject using concepts and debates from …
An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing. It discusses social rights as rights of …
Global Prescriptions scrutinizes the movement to export a US-oriented version of the" rule of law," found in the activities of philanthropic foundations, the World Bank, the US Agency for …