Using law and human rights as a basis for civic advocacy

Interview with Dr Jeff Handmaker

In this interview with the Journal of Law and Society, Associate Professor Dr Jeff Handmaker talks about this recently published book Legal Mobilization: Assessing the potential and limits of law-based civic advocacy.

In the interview, Handmaker talks about what needs to happen to realise human rights and legal protections. The book includes both practice-based reflections as well as an exploration of the scholarly and strategic value of understanding different uses of law in relation to a variety of social justice causes

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'...human rights and legal protections do not realise themselves; something needs to happen.'

Read the full interview with Dr Jeff Handmaker online.

Dr Jeff Handmaker

Associate Professor of Legal Sociology

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