Community paralegals and the pursuit of justice / / edited by Vivek Maru, Varun Gauri.
The United Nations estimates that four 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Paralegal in Comparative Perspective : What Have We Learned Across These Six Countries? / Vivek Maru and Varun Gauri
- "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
- Community-Based Paralegalism in the Philippines : From Social Movements to Democratization / Jennifer Franco, Hector Soliman, and Maria Roda Cisnero
- Paralegalism in Indonesia : Balancing Relationships in the Shadow of the Law / Ward Berenschot and Taufik Rinaldi
- Kenya's Community-based Paralegals : A Tradition of Grassroots Legal Activism / H. Abigail Moy
- Squeezing Justice Out of a Broken System : Community Paralegals in Sierra Leone / Vivek Maru, Lyttelton Braima, and Gibrill Jalloh
- The Contributions of Community-based Paralegals in Delivering Access to Justice in Post-war Liberia / Peter Chapman and Chelsea Payne.