Rights and Courts in Pursuit of Social Change
Legal Mobilisation in the Multi-Level European System
Edited by Dia Anagnostou - Hart Publishing 2014
Over the past few decades, European countries have witnessed a proliferation
of legal norms concerning marginalised individuals and minorities who
increasingly invoke them in front of courts to assert their rights and claim
protection. The present volume explores the relationship between law, rights and
social mobilisation in Europe. It specifically enquires into the extent and ways
in which legal processes and entitlements are mobilised by less privileged
social actors to advance their rights claims and pursue social change. Most
distinctly, it explores such processes in the context of the multi-level
European system, characterised by the existence of multiple legal and judicial
arenas at the national, subnational and supranational/transnational level. In
such a complex system of law and governance in Europe, concepts like legal
opportunity structures, as well as the factors shaping them need to be
reconceptualised. How does the multi-level European context distinctly shape the
nature and salience of rights, as well as their mobilisation by individuals and
minority actors?
Over the past few decades, European countries have witnessed a proliferation
of legal norms concerning marginalised individuals and minorities who
increasingly invoke them in front of courts to assert their rights and claim
protection. The present volume explores the relationship between law, rights and
social mobilisation in Europe. It specifically enquires into the extent and ways
in which legal processes and entitlements are mobilised by less privileged
social actors to advance their rights claims and pursue social change. Most
distinctly, it explores such processes in the context of the multi-level
European system, characterised by the existence of multiple legal and judicial
arenas at the national, subnational and supranational/transnational level. In
such a complex system of law and governance in Europe, concepts like legal
opportunity structures, as well as the factors shaping them need to be
reconceptualised. How does the multi-level European context distinctly shape the
nature and salience of rights, as well as their mobilisation by individuals and
minority actors?
