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Can legal empowerment help to address ethnic exclusion?‘Legal empowerment’ is defined as a process of systemic change through which the poor and excluded become able to use the law to protect and advance their rights and interests as citizens and economic actors...
Legal empowerment Group-based inequality Property rightsJournal Article
Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after ConflictPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Horizontal inequality Legal empowerment PeacebuildingJournal Article
Can Business Rights Alleviate Group-Based Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa?: Understanding the Limits to ReformPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Group-based inequality Minorities BusinessJournal Article
Using Legal Empowerment for Labour Rights in IndiaPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Labour Judicial activism Legal empowermentJournal Article
Legal Empowerment of the Poor through Property Rights Reform: Tensions and Trade-offs of Land Registration and Titling in Sub-Saharan AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Property Land RightsJournal Article
Identity Documents, Welfare Enhancement, and Group Empowerment in the Global SouthPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Identity Legal empowerment WelfareJournal Article
Access to What?: Legal Agency and Access to Justice for Indigenous Peoples in Latin AmericaPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Indigenous rights Human rights Legal empowermentJournal Article
Legal Empowerment and Group-Based InequalityPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Legal empowerment Ethnicity Horizontal inequalityJournal Special Issue
Legal Empowerment and Group-Based InequalityThe articles in the forthcoming special issue are already available online on full open access. The special issue will be officially published in March 2019, vol. 55, issue 3...
Legal empowerment Group-based inequality Property rightsWorking Paper
Legal empowerment and group-based inequalityLegal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion...
Legal empowerment Ethnicity Horizontal inequalityWorking Paper
Using legal empowerment for labour rights in IndiaThis paper brings labour back into the literature on legal empowerment against poverty. Employing a historical lens, I outline three waves of legal movements. Each wave is distinguished by its timing, the state-level target, and the actors involved...
Labour Judicial activism Legal empowermentWorking Paper
Legal empowerment and horizontal inequalities after conflictThis article explores whether legal empowerment can address horizontal inequalities in post-conflict settings, and if so, how...
Horizontal inequality Legal empowerment PeacebuildingWorking Paper
Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reform: Tensions and trade-offs of land registration and titling in sub-Saharan AfricaLand registration and titling in Africa has been seen as a means of legal empowerment of the poor that can protect smallholders’ and pastoralists’ rights of access to land and other land-based resources...
Property Land RightsWorking Paper
Business rights and ethnic exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa: Addressing group-based inequality through business rights reformThe business rights pillar of the Legal Empowerment of the Poor agenda is not preoccupied with equality of outcome; it concentrates instead on equality of opportunity...
Legal empowerment Entrepreneurship Affirmative actionWorking Paper
Access to what?: Legal agency and access to justice for indigenous peoples in Latin AmericaIn 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...
Indigenous rights Human rights Legal empowerment