TY - BOOK AU - Gauri,Varun AU - Maru,Vivek TI - Community paralegals and the pursuit of justice SN - 9781107159716 (hardback) AV - K 133 C657 2018 U1 - 362.5/86 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, USA PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Legal services KW - Developing countries KW - Legal assistants KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights KW - bisacsh KW - Kampala Declaration on Community Paralegals N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Paralegal in Comparative Perspective : What Have We Learned Across These Six Countries? / Vivek Maru and Varun Gauri -- "To Whom do the People Take Their Issues?" : The Contribution of Community-Based Paralegals to Access to Justice in South Africa / Jackie Dugard and Katherine Drage -- Community-Based Paralegalism in the Philippines : From Social Movements to Democratization / Jennifer Franco, Hector Soliman, and Maria Roda Cisnero -- Paralegalism in Indonesia : Balancing Relationships in the Shadow of the Law / Ward Berenschot and Taufik Rinaldi -- Kenya's Community-based Paralegals : A Tradition of Grassroots Legal Activism / H. Abigail Moy -- Squeezing Justice Out of a Broken System : Community Paralegals in Sierra Leone / Vivek Maru, Lyttelton Braima, and Gibrill Jalloh -- The Contributions of Community-based Paralegals in Delivering Access to Justice in Post-war Liberia / Peter Chapman and Chelsea Payne N2 - "In this book, we aim to characterize and assess a lesser-known intermediate institution-the community paralegal. According to the 2012 Kampala Declaration on Community Paralegals, community paralegals "use knowledge of law and government and tools like mediation, organizing, education, and advocacy to [help people] seek concrete solutions to instances of injustice." Paralegals and their clients typically address three kinds of problems: disputes among citizens, citizen grievances against state institutions, and disputes between citizens and private firms"-- UR - https://drive.google.com/file/d/10hs5S4KuWUwDFowrAcDs1kqxMIEllrmK/view?usp=sharing ER -