The United Nations estimates that four billion people worldwide live outside the protection of the law. These people can be driven from their land, intimidated

"Paralegals can be a powerful tool of justice, helping to resolve disputes and empower individual clients and whole communities. Living and working in the commu

Informal forms of justice such as mediation have been greeted enthusiastically as progress from the punishment model of justice -- and criticised as broadening

This book attempts to convey some of the challenges that those wielding the law for social change purposes have faced and the successes they have achieved. By i

"Paralegals can be a powerful tool of justice, helping to resolve disputes and empower individual clients and whole communities. Living and working in the commu