Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Influence of Legal Institutions on Legal Mobilization

博士论文研究：法律制度对法律动员的影响摘要：法律制度是实现社会、经济和政治动员不可或缺的一部分。法律动员过程要求索赔人了解并认识到他们的合法权利和求助手段。该项目将评估公民对法律机构的理解和认知，以及这种理解如何影响他们从事诉讼以追求合法权利的能力。该项目还将评估公民动员法院的条件，同时探索公民表示愿意利用法院动员其索赔的条件。该项目将法律动员、司法影响和司法解释的文献联系在法律和社会的理论范畴下，以便开展实地工作，探讨南非黑人表示愿意利用法院动员其索赔的条件。通过注重社会经济权利，该项目将侧重于这些公民如何解释他们的宪法权利和法院满足这些权利的能力，以及这种解释如何影响他们使用法律战略的选择。将与利用法律制度追求其权利的公民进行访谈，以确定他们对其法律机构保护其宪法权利的能力的看法。调查结果将提供对公民对宪法权利的看法以及法律机构对法律动员的影响的洞察。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Title: Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Influence of Legal Institutions on Legal MobilizationAbstract:Legal institutions are integral to achieving social, economic, and political mobilization. The process of legal mobilization requires claimants to understand and perceive their legal rights and means of recourse. The project will assess citizens' understanding and perception of legal institutions and how such understanding influences their ability to engage in litigation to pursue their legal rights. The project will also evaluate the conditions under which citizens mobilize courts while it explores the conditions under which citizens express willingness to use courts to mobilize their claims.The project links the literatures on legal mobilization, judicial impact, and judicial interpretation under the theoretical rubric of law and society in order to engage in fieldwork to explore the conditions under which Black South Africans express willingness to use courts to mobilize their claims. By focusing on socio-economic rights, the project will focus on how these citizens interpret their constitutional rights and courts' ability to satisfy those rights, and how that interpretation affects their choice to use legal strategies. Interviews will be conducted with citizens who have employed the legal system to pursue their rights, to ascertain their perceptions of their legal institutions' ability to protect their constitutional rights. Findings will provide insight into citizens' perceptions of constitutional rights and of the influences of legal institutions on legal mobilization.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.