Strategic litigation in Brazil: exploring the translocalisation of a legal practice

Assis, Mariana Prandini

doi:10.1080/20414005.2021.2006560

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“…In contrast, socio-legal, critical race theorists and feminist scholars have collectively put forward an important body of work interrogating doctrinal assumptions about the state and statehood that portray the state as static, monolith and tied to nationhood (Assis, 2021; Darian-Smith, 2013; Hernández, 2016). Relatedly, rather than seeing law and legality primarily in terms of rules and norms as dictated from above, critical research conveys the need to understand law as about the consciousness embedded in everyday lives and practices (Ewick and Silbey, 1998).…”

Section: Measuring Gender Mapping Themesmentioning

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Dominant Development Indexes’ Construction of Gender and Challenges for Recognizing Everyday Activism for Peace and Security

Luttrell-Rowland,

Rhee,

Okujagu

2023

Progress in Development Studies

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Developed organizations have increasingly garnered numerous indicators to measure gender and development outcomes. Yet, measurements themselves reflect a logic of the arenas where development occurs and can be captured, and therefore reflect where women are imagined to predominantly exist. Based on the analysis of 1,298 indicators across 15 major development databases covering African countries, this article argues that mainstream development organizations predominantly understand gender in terms of institutional sites. Sometimes these were sites for intervention, or a place for institutional ‘betterment’ (a hospital, a work place, and a school). Other times, these sites were conceptualized as natural places where women would be (the family and the nation state). We identify the spatial logics underpinning these development indicators, and link them to larger historical gendered and racialized colonial logics organizing diverse social, economic, and cultural lives, where economic and institutional sites are promoted, a more nuanced and relational one is displaced. Ultimately, these spatial imaginings extend to the larger context of where debates about peace and security are situated—namely in largely individual, state-driven, and institutional-centric ways.

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Section: Measuring Gender Mapping Themesmentioning

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Section: Legal and State Institutions: Sites Of Legalitymentioning

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Dominant Development Indexes’ Construction of Gender and Challenges for Recognizing Everyday Activism for Peace and Security

Luttrell-Rowland,

Rhee,

Okujagu

2023

Progress in Development Studies

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“…Contrary to such generalization, a narrower conception of public interest lawyering clearly distinguishes it from people´s lawyering (Assis 2021, Carlet 2019, Manzo 2016. According to Mariana Manzo (2016), some of the aspects that differentiate the two modalities consist in the place that law and politics occupy in the practice of law, as well as the degree of engagement of the lawyers in relation to the causes in which they act.…”

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“…Similarly, Mariana Prandini Assis (2021) Flávia Carlet (2019) adds that the pedagogy of work adopted 'with', and not 'for', the groups advised substantially demarcates the differences between people´s lawyers and public interest lawyers. People´s lawyers closely follow the struggle of the social movements and marginalized groups that they advocate for, valuing their knowledge, autonomy, and political decisions on legal and extra-legal strategies.…”

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“…The term has also been used by some NGOs and collectives that adopt people´s lawyering as an action strategy. In this sense, some studies have alerted to the fact that strategic litigation has been increasingly cited in people´s lawyering publications, interviews, and workshops (Assis 2021). Although strategic litigation has relevance in the legal work of many NGOs committed to the struggle for human rights, the approach to people´s lawyering should be done with caution.…”

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Contemporary socio-legal studies empirical and global perspectives

2023

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This volume is part of a series of seminars, interviews and publications that the editors have been organizing in the endeavor of bringing a highly abstract and general theory of society – such as Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory – closer to more detailed discussions concerning specific legal fields and problems, and linking empirical investigation to legal doctrines and theories. In this volume, we maintain the focus on systemic-theoretical approaches, but also invite a wider range of other contemporary socio-legal theories and methods. The reader is asked to find the contrasts and complementarities between these diverse viewpoints. The book is organized in four main parts: one presenting some theoretical and methodological discussions on how to couple sociological and legal theory with empirical research, under systemic approaches; the second one presents examples of empirical research adopting a socio-legal background to look to the legal, political and economic systems; a third one focuses on the problems of inclusion/ exclusion in contemporary society; the fourth and final session discusses researches concerning the legal process and legal organization.

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‘How Did You Get in There and Make the Law Work?’ Feminist Activism, Doctors and Abortion Law: The Occupation of an Hospital

Caruso

2024

Social & Legal Studies

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In this article, I examine the aftermath of Italy's 1978 abortion law (Law 194/1978) and the following feminist occupation of a Rome hospital, revealing a little-known chapter in feminist history. The legislation marked a pivotal moment by partly legalising abortion access, overturning draconian laws from the Fascist era. The focus on the 3-month occupation illuminates how social movements actively shaped, and were shaped by, the implementation of the law. Drawing on overlooked archival materials and original interviews with feminist abortion campaigners, I uncover unique dynamics between feminist activists, medical professionals, and abortion law. I contend that this historical event not only diversifies our understanding of social movements’ roles in legal changes but also highlights the exceptional case of a public hospital serving as a platform for transmitting feminist practices and knowledge to medical professionals. Ultimately, I argue for the crucial role of feminist history in advancing socio–legal scholarship.

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Strategic litigation in Brazil: exploring the translocalisation of a legal practice

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Dominant Development Indexes’ Construction of Gender and Challenges for Recognizing Everyday Activism for Peace and Security

Dominant Development Indexes’ Construction of Gender and Challenges for Recognizing Everyday Activism for Peace and Security

Contemporary socio-legal studies empirical and global perspectives

‘How Did You Get in There and Make the Law Work?’ Feminist Activism, Doctors and Abortion Law: The Occupation of an Hospital

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