Legal Mobilization for Human Rights (Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law)

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. Cover Series Legal Mobilization for Human Rights Copyright Contents Notes on Contributors 1. Legal Mobilization for Human Rights: An Introduction 2. LGBTQ Rights Mobilization and Authoritarianism 3. Women, Peace, and Security: A Human Rights Agenda? 4. International NGOs and the (Non) Mobilization of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change: An Inconvenient Frame? 5. Reframing Indigenous Rights: The Right to Consultation and the Rights of Nature and Future Generations in the Sarayaku Legal Mobilization 6. Critical Legal Empowerment for Human Rights Index The essays in this book reveals key themes of mobilization in human rights law through case studies, and discuss topics such as 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. This book is based on the specialized courses during the 2019 AEL summer course on Human Rights Law