Studies about authoritarianism build the foundation of legal mobilization scholarship and
continue to advance this area of sociolegal research. The contributions of these studies …

Social movements have increasingly incorporated legal strategies into their repertoires of
contention. Yet, both sociolegal and social movement scholarship lack a systematic and …

Social movements increasingly utilize litigation strategies to pursue social change. One can
easily find examples of movement groups taking their claims making into the courts to …

Movements are increasingly taking companies to court for environmental and social harms.
Yet little is known about the consequences this strategy has for movements and their …

Social movements, NGOs and other political actors often mobilise the law for social change.
Strategic litigation and collective legal mobilisation can be key instruments to face current …

Identifying what actors drive social change through the courts has been a central pursuit in
the socio-legal literature. This article studies Colombia's LGBT rights revolution (1992–2022) …

Comparative studies can reveal much about how law is formed out of social reality and
political power by exploring these interactions in different national contexts. In this work …

Social movements and interest groups in Europe are increasingly using litigation as a form
of legal mobilization in their campaigns. Current literature often depicts this as a result of …

Durante a pandemia de covid-19, uma coalizão de organizações, movimentos e coletivos
de favela obteve uma intervenção sem precedentes do Supremo Tribunal Federal na …

How and to what extent do defense actors use publicity in trials of protesters in
contemporary Russia? Why do they fight over strategic uses of publicity if “everything is …