A growing set of social movements has in recent years revived interest in “community
control,” the idea that local residents should exercise power over services like the police …

Alyne da Silva Pimentel Teixeira died of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) following the
stillbirth of a 27-week-old fetus on November 16, 2002 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her death …

Communities across the United States face a widespread water crisis including risks of
contamination, rate increases, shut-offs for non-payment, and dilapidating infrastructure …

Now that it has been in operation for 20 years, it is necessary to reflect on the impact the
South African Domestic Violence Act has had on women's lives. This article analyses this …

This article explores an important development in American legal theory and practice over
the past decade: the rise of" movement lawyering" as an alternative model of public interest …

South Africa is well known for the countrys model of racialized territorial government called
apartheid and the successful transition to constitutional democracy in April 1994. The South …

Communities across the United States face a widespread water crisis including risks of
contamination, rate increases, shut-offs for non-payment, and dilapidating infrastructure …

En nuestros días, los derechos humanos forman parte central de las estrategias de muchos
movimientos sociales. Desde el feminismo hasta el ambientalismo, es difícil encontrar un …

Surviving Dispossession: Burmese Migrants in Thailand's Border Economic Zones Page 1
Persistent link: http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104231 This work is posted on eScholarship@BC …

This study is interested in questions of law and social change, with particular focus on how
litigation can be used strategically to change the law to benefit women. Given law's …