Tam (2018), “Political Transition and the Rise of Cause Lawyering: The Case of Hong Kong”
This article analyzes how cause lawyering emerged and thrived in Hong Kong under authoritarian conditions.
This article analyzes how cause lawyering emerged and thrived in Hong Kong under authoritarian conditions.
This chapter examines how Israeli and Palestinian cause lawyers have helped build a human rights movement focused on the Occupied Territories.
This article examines the pivotal role of Hong Kong lawyers in the pro-democracy movement.
This article critically examines American assumptions about the development of the legal profession in China.
The article examines how Pakistan’s grassroots lawyers’ movement leveraged nonviolent resistance and mass mobilization to restore judicial independence, highlighting civil society’s potential to drive democratic change under authoritarian rule.
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