What key successes have lawyers and advocates had in using international human rights mechanisms to ensure gender equality with respect to organizing, litigation and public policy?
The American Trial Lawyers Association has organized a litigation group around the Firestone tires, in which lawyers representing plaintiffs across the country can compare notes, and perhaps consolidate suits.
As far as the Internet goes, the music industry is basically organized around litigation on one side, and extracting maximum licensing fees from music startups that try to play by the rules on the other.
Our research collaborative involves a partnership between four institutions: Brown University, Silent Spring Institute (a non-profit environmental health research organization based in Massachusetts), the University of California, Berkeley, and Communities for a Better Environment (CBE; a California environmental justice organization that combines organizing, advocacy, litigation, and research).
But lately, residents here in Greene and Washington Counties have been organizing through litigation and newsletters against the longwall in a feat as earth-defying in its way as the high-speed mechanism tirelessly crisscrossing below.
They plan a full campaign of organizing, outreach, litigation and voter registration and voter mobilization -- building up to a mid-term election that, in a normal cycle, is usually a time when older and more conservative voters usually dominate.
The ones that opted for litigation organized under the banner of Students Matter, a Silicon Valley group founded by tech entrepreneur Dave Welch.
In addition to learning about evidence analysis, Lint gained valuable experience in how massive multi-year litigation is organized.
For both civil and criminal projects, advocacy may entail a wide range of approaches, including, but not limited to, community legal education and training, organizing, direct services, litigation, transactional work and administrative efforts.
Students Matter, the group that organized and funded the Vergara litigation, wants us to shift our reform attention to teacher tenure.
