The United Nations estimates that four billion people worldwide live outside the protection of the law. These people can be driven from their land, intimidated

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This book attempts to convey some of the challenges that those wielding the law for social change purposes have faced and the successes they have achieved. By i

This book is a first-of-its-kind, five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation. Detailed studies of Braz