How Do Social Movements Decide to Move? Polyamorous Relationships and Legal Mobilization

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadar Aviram
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Legal Mobilization

scholarly journals Socio-Legal Strategies against a Total Abortion Ban in El Salvador: Alliances in Hostile Contexts

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Angélica Peñas Defago ◽  
Violeta Cánaves
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Second Moment ◽  
Abortion Law ◽  
Legal Strategies ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Third Moment

Abstract The case of El Salvador provides unique evidence of how solidarity is possible among different social movements in struggles over abortion law reform and its impact, even in contexts of extreme criminalization. The paper depicts a concrete example of how networks centered on abortion struggles can go beyond feminist movements and national borders, and shows the domestic impact of broadening the scope of the audience, the actors involved, and the spheres where abortion law discussions take place. The article focuses on the evolution of socio-legal mobilization regarding abortion in El Salvador over the last two decades. This evolution is presented through three moments: the first centers on the legal actions that feminist movements orchestrated in the mid-2000's around the Beatriz case. The second moment focuses on the most outstanding features of the “Las 17” campaign – a collaborative and international experience that entailed the submission of seventeen pardon petitions on behalf of women who had been convicted of homicide after having miscarriages. Finally, a third moment entails the socio-legal strategies embraced by feminist movements since 2018 within the framework of the campaign named “Las 17+”.

Conceptualizing Legal Mobilization: How Should We Understand the Deployment of Legal Strategies?

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio Lehoucq ◽  
Whitney K. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Strategies ◽  
Do So

Social movements have increasingly incorporated legal strategies into their repertoires of contention. Yet, both sociolegal and social movement scholarship lack a systematic and theoretically coherent way to conceptualize legal mobilization. In fact, scholars disagree (sometimes in fundamental ways) about what constitutes legal mobilization, which has resulted in conceptual slippage around how the term is used. This article proposes a more self-conscious approach that will facilitate the aggregation of findings across studies. To do so, it sets forth a systematic conceptualization of legal mobilization and situates it within a typology of uses of the law. It also contextualizes the typology with respect to emerging literatures within social movement and sociolegal scholarship and proposes areas for further research that would benefit from a more rigorous conceptualization of legal mobilization.

A MULTIMETHOD APPROACH TO FRAMING DISPUTES: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ON TRIAL IN OBERGEFELL V. HODGES*

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
Alex Espinoza-Kulick
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Multimethod Approach

Social movements scholars have widely used the framing perspective to analyze meaning-making related to social movements and contentious politics. Qualitative methods have helped to illuminate how activists frame social issues to combine meanings in strategic ways. By contrast, linear statistical modeling is ill-suited to analyze the interdependent and circuitous aspects of collective action frames. This study offers a multimethod approach that uses an abductive framework to combine techniques from computational text analysis and network modeling along with interpretive coding. I demonstrate this approach in the context of framing disputes through legal mobilization over the same-sex marriage in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges. By examining Court discourse and amicus briefs, I show the coordination of similarities and distinctions among opposing social movement groups and elite actors. Future research can expand this method for both case studies and comparative analyses of movements.

Legal Mobilization on the Terrain of the State: Creating a Field of Immigrant Rights Lawyering in France and the United States

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (02) ◽  
pp. 354-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Kawar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Immigrant Rights ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Legal Contexts ◽  
Law And Social Movements

Scholarship on law and social movements has focused attention primarily on the United States, and secondarily on countries that share the Anglo‐American legal tradition. The politics of law and social movements in other national legal contexts remains underexamined. The analysis in this article contrasts legal mobilizations for immigrant rights in France and the United States, and explores the relations between national fields of power and legal practices. I trace the institutionalization of immigrant rights legal organizations in each country and argue that the divergent organizational forms and litigation strategies adopted by professionalized movement organizations reflect the dynamics of the nationally distinct fields of power relations within which law reform has been conducted. My analysis links the material and symbolic resources available to law reformers to the relative authority of private and public juridical actors in each state.

Social Movements and the Politics of Bureaucratic Rights Enforcement: Insights from the Allocation of Disability Rights in France

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 450-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Revillard
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
Disability Policy ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Allocation Process ◽  
Institutional Norms ◽  
And Control

While research on legal mobilization shows how social movements contribute to the definition and implementation of rights, it remains excessively centered on litigation to the detriment of administrative rights enforcement. This article maps out how street-level bureaucracies impact rights enforcement by distinguishing between allocation, access, and process, and analyzes how social movements intervene in these three aspects. It then focuses on allocation, using the case of French disability policy to analyze the forms of advocacy deployed by movement actors who take part in the rights allocation process at the local level. The article argues that conformity to institutional norms derives not so much from a pressure to conform as from the knowledge and experience of the limited means locally available to make rights effective. Further, it shows how advocacy is reframed from the defense of individual claims to a role of scrutiny and control of the bureaucratic allocation of rights.

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