Articles:
Mobilizing for Farmworker Rights in an Era of Shifting Legal and Governance Opportunities
Matthew Canfield and Manoj Dias-Abey This Article analyzes how contemporary farmworker movements are exploiting both “legal opportunities” and what we term “governance opportunities”— strategic openings for action arising from the contingent industry structures and private governance of global value chains. We analyze two cases of recent farmworker mobilization: Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in Florida…
Targets, Fields, and Tactics: Multi-Institutional Legal Mobilization in the Campaign of the U’wa People in Colombia
Pablo Rueda-Saiz This article contributes to the literature on law and social movements by analyzing legal mobilization against both state and non-state targets. It focuses on the campaign of the U’wa indigenous people in Colombia as a theory-generating study to explain why changes in campaign targets can promote variations in the areas of law that…
Book Reviews:
Review of David Bosco’s The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans
Reviewed by Stephen Cody David Bosco[1] has a remarkable ability to write gripping stories about international organizations and international law. His latest book, The Poseidon Project, reconstructs centuries of maritime, military, and diplomatic history with the aim of answering two crucial questions: “who controls the oceans and what are the rules for their use?”[2] Answers…
Review of Luca Falciola’s Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s–1970s
Reviewed by Kat Brausch Summer 2020: Masses of protesters filled the streets, wearing bandanas and homemade masks, fists aloft. The lime green hats of legal observers dotted the crowds, watching intently for signs of police abuses, writing down the names of those arrested when they could. In air-conditioned courtrooms, lawyers represented those protestors, defending victims…
Review of Lisa Hajjar’s The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture
Reviewed by Michael Brier From its inception, the United States’ War on Terror was shrouded in doublespeak. The Bush administration rebranded torture practices as “enhanced interrogation techniques.”[1] Pursuant to a November 2001 military order issued by President Bush, those whom the United States detained as enemies in the War on Terror were classified as “unlawful…
