Unleashing the Force of Law : Legal Mobilization, National Security, and Basic Freedoms (Palgrave Macmillan Socio-legal Studies)

An interdisciplinary, comparative study of the work of lawyers for civil liberties and basic freedoms, integrating socio-legal theoretical frameworks with insights from political lawyering and social movement literature, in order to trace the professionalization of human rights work and analyse the possibilities and limitations of the rule of law.