Both scholars and practitioners engaged in either researching or advancing legal mobilization recognize that law can be used to guide legal interventions seeking to trigger transformative justice.
A persistent question faced by legal mobilization practitioners and researchers alike is: who are we mobilizing for, and with whom?
As a member of the newly established Legal Mobilization Platform, Dr Jeff Handmaker sought to answer this question during the platform's launch on 12 January 2023.
In this post he outlines a number of relevant points pertinent to finding a response. He wonders, for example, who takes the lead in legal mobilization claims, the relevance of recognizing one's privilege and the challenges posed by patriarchy, racism, elitism and anthropocentrism.
Read the full post on the ISS blog - 'Mobilizing for a just world: Legal mobilization for whom?', 31 January 2023
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