Enhancing Democratic Habits: An oral history of the Law Centres movement

增强民主习惯:法律中心运动的口述历史

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    AH/T007710/1
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 103.94万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    英国
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grant
  • 财政年份:
    2021
  • 资助国家:
    英国
  • 起止时间:
    2021 至 无数据
  • 项目状态:
    未结题

项目摘要

This project is an in-depth archival analysis and oral history of the development of Law Centres over the past 50 years. It aims to explore the relationship between legal case work, community based strategic litigation, social campaigns and the participation of the citizenry in the civic sphere. We will collect and analyse all the annual reports produced by Law Centres. Life story interview methods will also be employed to gather the personal accounts of Law Centre activists. Using the records and testimony of pioneers and Law Centre workers, we will explore the people who fuelled these changes, the complex internal dynamics of the 'movement' and the ways in which Law Centres challenged conventional legal practice. This research will allow us to reflect on the successes and failures of this form of radical lawyering, including the extent to which the issues it brought to the fore remain live today and the origins of some 'radical' practices that have now been absorbed into mainstream legal practice.This project brings together a unique interdisciplinary team of socio-legal and community justice scholars, oral historians and civil society partners. It is a collaboration between the Oxford Centre of Socio-Legal Studies and Queens University, Belfast, with the support of the British Library, National Life Stories and the Law Centres Network. The research represents a rare opportunity to consider the influence of Law Centres on the legal and democratic system based on the testimony of those who made it happen. Capturing the views of pioneers of the movement is particularly urgent given the ages of the early pioneers.The first Law Centres were established in impoverished areas where they acted for those who could not afford to pay for legal services. They dealt with subject areas, such as welfare rights, immigration, housing, discrimination and domestic violence, which had been marginalised in mainstream legal education and practice. Law Centres also acted to achieve broader political and social change through case work, strategic litigation and community based campaigns. They also rejected the established legal profession's claim to neutrality, recognised the expertise of those without legal qualifications and sought to work without workplace hierarchy. The project will provide greater understanding of the contribution that those who worked in Law Centres made to changing conceptions of lawyering. The proposed work also has much broader scholarly and practical implications. There is considerable contemporary debate about the extent to which mature liberal democracies are seen as relying on institutions run by social and political elites from which the disadvantaged feel remote. This has given rise to widespread debate about the dangers of an emerging 'democratic deficit' in which citizens are increasingly retreating from engaging in public life. By focusing on the stories, motivations and perspectives of pioneers and activists in Law Centres, this research will consider how the engagement of Law Centres with impoverished local communities promoted active citizenship. A key goal of the project will be to explore what can be learnt from the many stories of the movement that could inform current attempts to tackle failures in democracy, access to law, regimes of rights and community 'voice'.The sound and documentary archives created and curated by the research team will provide a valuable addition to collections of British contemporary life held at the British Library/National Life Stories and by the Law Centres Network. These will provide a rich resource for scholars and members of the public interested in the dynamics and everyday practicalities of grass roots social movements. Expert training and support in oral history skills and archival management provided to Law Centres will also enhance their capacity to curate their own histories at a local level.
该项目是对过去50年来法律中心发展的深入档案分析和口述历史。它旨在探讨法律的案件工作,基于社区的战略诉讼,社会运动和公民参与公民领域之间的关系。我们将收集和分析法律中心编写的所有年度报告。还将采用生活故事访谈方法收集法律中心活动人士的个人陈述。利用先驱者和法律中心工作人员的记录和证词,我们将探索推动这些变化的人,“运动”的复杂内部动态以及法律中心挑战传统法律的实践的方式。这项研究将使我们能够反思这种形式的激进律师的成功和失败,包括它所带来的问题在多大程度上仍然存在今天和一些'激进'的做法,现在已被吸收到主流法律的practice.This项目的起源汇集了社会法律的和社区司法学者,口述历史学家和民间社会的合作伙伴独特的跨学科团队。这是牛津社会法律研究中心和贝尔法斯特皇后大学在大英图书馆、国家生活故事和法律中心网络的支持下开展的合作。这项研究提供了一个难得的机会,可以根据促成法律中心对法律的和民主制度产生影响的人的证词来考虑这种影响。鉴于早期先驱者的年龄,了解该运动先驱者的观点尤为紧迫。第一批法律中心成立于贫困地区,他们为那些无力支付法律的服务的人提供服务。它们涉及的主题领域,如福利权利、移民、住房、歧视和家庭暴力,在主流法律的教育和实践中被边缘化。法律中心还采取行动,通过个案工作、战略诉讼和社区运动,实现更广泛的政治和社会变革。他们还拒绝了既定的法律的职业的中立性要求,承认那些没有法律的资格的专业知识,并寻求在没有工作场所等级制度的情况下工作。该项目将使人们更好地了解那些在法律中心工作的人对改变律师观念所作的贡献。拟议的工作也有更广泛的学术和实践的影响。关于成熟的自由民主国家在多大程度上被视为依赖于由社会和政治精英管理的机构,而弱势群体感到遥远,当代有相当多的辩论。这引起了广泛的辩论,即正在出现的“民主赤字”的危险,公民越来越多地退出参与公共生活。通过关注法律中心先驱和活动家的故事,动机和观点,本研究将考虑法律中心如何与贫困的当地社区合作,促进积极的公民身份。该项目的一个关键目标是探索可以从这场运动的许多故事中学到什么,这些故事可以为当前解决民主失败、获得法律、权利制度和社区的“声音”。研究团队创建和策划的声音和文献档案将为大英图书馆收藏的英国当代生活提供宝贵的补充。国家生活故事和法律中心网络。这些将为对基层社会运动的动态和日常实践感兴趣的学者和公众提供丰富的资源。向各法律中心提供口述历史技能和档案管理方面的专家培训和支助,也将提高它们在地方一级整理自己历史的能力。

项目成果

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Women, Their Lives, and the Law - Essays in Honour of Rosemary Auchmuty
妇女、她们的生活和法律——纪念罗斯玛丽·奥赫穆蒂的散文
  • DOI:
    10.5040/9781509962112.ch-005
  • 发表时间:
    2023
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    0
  • 作者:
    Burton M
  • 通讯作者:
    Burton M
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Linda Mulcahy其他文献

Revisiting the Concept of Voice: Expression of Grievances across the English and Welsh National Health Service
重新审视声音的概念:英格兰和威尔士国家卫生服务部门的不满表达
  • DOI:
    10.1017/lsi.2024.7
  • 发表时间:
    2024
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    0
  • 作者:
    Linda Mulcahy
  • 通讯作者:
    Linda Mulcahy
Supporting Online Justice Enhancing Accessibility, Participation and Procedural Fairness
支持在线司法,增强可及性、参与性和程序公平性
  • DOI:
  • 发表时间:
    2022
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    0
  • 作者:
    Linda Mulcahy
  • 通讯作者:
    Linda Mulcahy
Putting us in our Place: Recognising the Parasitic Tendencies of the Socio-Legal Researcher
把我们放在自己的位置上:认识到社会法律研究者的寄生倾向
  • DOI:
  • 发表时间:
    2022
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    0
  • 作者:
    Linda Mulcahy
  • 通讯作者:
    Linda Mulcahy
Docile Suffragettes? Resistance to Police Photography and the Possibility of Object–Subject Transformation
温顺的女权主义者?对警察摄影的抵制以及物—主客体转换的可能性
  • DOI:
    10.1007/s10691-015-9280-x
  • 发表时间:
    2015-04-07
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    1.500
  • 作者:
    Linda Mulcahy
  • 通讯作者:
    Linda Mulcahy

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{{ truncateString('Linda Mulcahy', 18)}}的其他基金

Virtual Justice - Enhancing accessibility, participation and procedural justice in family courts and tribunals during the COVID-19 pandemic
虚拟司法 - 在 COVID-19 大流行期间增强家庭法院和法庭的可及性、参与性和程序正义
  • 批准号:
    ES/V01580X/1
  • 财政年份:
    2020
  • 资助金额:
    $ 103.94万
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grant
LSE Doctoral Training Partnership
伦敦经济学院博士培训合作伙伴
  • 批准号:
    ES/P000622/1
  • 财政年份:
    2017
  • 资助金额:
    $ 103.94万
  • 项目类别:
    Training Grant

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