In this paper I issue a call for a primary focus on expanding and strengthening alternative, community-based justice system, as a strategy for securing the full benefits of legal agency to indigenous and other culturally distinct groups. I do so because what lies within the formal justice system...

Private regulatory initiatives, human rights, and supply chain capitalism / Daniel Brinks, Julia Dehm, Karen Engle, and Kate Taylor -- Closing gaps in the chain : regulating respect for human rights in global supply chains and the role of multi-stakeholder initiatives / Justine Nolan -- The...

The elements of legalization, and the triangular shape of social and economic rights / by Varun Gauri and Daniel M. Brinks -- Litigating for social justice in post-apartheid South Africa : a focus on health and education / by Jonathan Berger -- Accountability for social and economic rights in...

Optimism about the use of laws, constitutions, and rights to achieve social change has never been higher among practitioners. But the academic literature is skeptical that courts can direct resources toward the poor. This paper develops a nuanced account in which not all courts are the same....