Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ghai Cbe, Yash; Cottrell, Jill

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Marginalized Communities and Access to Justice is a comparative study, by leading researchers in the field of law and justice, of the imperatives and constraints of access to justice among a number of marginalized communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135236137
• Artikelnr.: 43821589

Autorenporträt

Yash Ghai recently retired after teaching law in universities in four continents, most recently as the Sir Y K Pao Professor of Public Law and the University of Hong Kong. He was the UN Secretary General's Special representative on Human Rights in Cambodia until 2008. He has taught especially human rights and constitutional law. Jill Cottrell was a university law teacher for 40 years, teaching especially economic social and cultural rights in recent years. She recently retired from the University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. The Rule of Law and Access to Justice, Yash Ghai and Jill
Cottrell 2. Access to Justice: Lessons from South Africa's Land Reform
Program, Geoff Budlender 3. Access to Land and Justice: Anatomy of a State
without the Rule of Law, Yash Ghai 4. The Movement of Landless Rural
Workers in Brazil and their Struggles for Access to Law and Justice,
Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Flavia Carlet 5. Access to Justice and
Indigenous Communities in Latin America, J. Faundez 6. Seeking justice for
the historical claims of indigenous people in Aotearoa New Zealand, David
V. Williams 7. Peasants' struggle for land in China, Eva Pils 8. 'Honor'
and Violence Against Women in Pakistan, Hannah Irfan 9. Peace Versus
Justice in Northern Kenya: Dialectics of State and Community Laws, Tanja
Chopra 10. The Opportunities and Challenges of Using Public Interest
Litigation to Secure Access to Justice for Roma in Central and Eastern
Europe, James A. Goldston and Mirna Adjami 11. Conclusions and Reflections,
Yash Ghai and Jill Cottrell