Description
Book SynopsisA book about agency. About how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles - political, psychological, economic, geographical, and physical - a small group of lawyers and survivors navigated a terrain of daunting barriers to begin building, case-by-case, new pathways to justice for those who otherwise would have none.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One – Lawyers Beyond Borders: Introduction and Overview
- Chapter Two – The Seeds of a Rights Revolution
- Chapter Three – Litigation as Recovery: The Birth of the CJA
- Chapter Four – The Burmese Connection
- Chapter Five – Rights and Redress in a “War on Terror”
- Chapter Six – Private Military Profits and the Search for Justice
- Chapter Seven – The New Impunity
- Chapter Eight – The Globalization of Justice
- Chapter Nine – European Collaborations for Justice in Syria
- Chapter Ten – Re-trauma and Resilience: The Dynamics of Clients and Counsel
- Chapter Eleven – The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of a Rights Revolution
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
