IDLO releases “Legal Empowerment: Practitioners’ Perspectives”, a collection of articles on approaches to integrating justice and development in ways that benefit the poor and other disadvantaged populations. The book is part of IDLO’s book series "Lessons Learned: Narrative Accounts of Legal Reform in Developing and Transition Countries".
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Legal Empowerment: Practitioners’ Perspectives Book and Online Series

Project Description: This project involves the preparation of a series of qualitative and quantitative empirical, scholarly articles culminating in an edited volume on approaches to integrating justice and development in ways that benefit the poor and other disadvantaged populations.

The volume will be a part of the IDLO book series Lessons Learned: Narrative Accounts of Legal Reform in Developing and Transition Countries.
Consistent with the animating question of this series, IDLO seeks to “identify legal reform success stories and to try to understand what accounts for such favorable outcomes”. Legal empowerment is the process of systemic change through which the poor are protected and enabled to use the law to advance their rights and their interests as citizens and economic actors.

1 1 UNSG Report on Legal Empowerment of the Poor and Eradication of Poverty, A/64/133 of 13 July 2009

Donor Support: This program is being implemented by the IDLO Unit for Research, Policy and Strategic Initiatives and is being supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (www.gatesfoundation.org) as part of IDLO’s broader research program: Supporting the Legal Empowerment of the Poor for Development. IDLO releases “Legal Empowerment: Practitioners’ Perspectives”, a collection of articles on approaches to integrating justice and development in ways that benefit the poor and other disadvantaged populations.

The book is part of IDLO’s book series "Lessons Learned: Narrative Accounts of Legal Reform in Developing and Transition Countries".

To download the electronic version
To request free hard copy (ies)

Project Location: Rome, Italy and Berkeley, California, the United States

Project Duration: One year (12 months)

Series Editor: Thomas McInerney
Book Editor: Stephen Golub
Contributing Authors:
Dan Manning
Adam Stapleton
Erica Harper
Lorenzo Cotula
Caroline Sage
Nicholas Menzies
Michael Woolcock
Tiernen Mennen
Ewa Wojkowska
Johanna Cunningham
Jamie O’Connell
Jeffrey Hatcher
Lucia Palombi
Paul Mathieu
Anne Grandjean
Vivek Maru
David Stephens
Mia Urbano
Nina Berg
Hayley Horan
Deena Patel
Hamid Rashid
Stephanie Willman Bordat
Saida Kouzzi
Project Contacts
Ilaria Bottigliero
Erica Harper
Chris Morris