Pursuing Racial, Climate and Socio-economic justice through a Legal Mobilization Platform

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Paper Abstract

In 2022, with the aim of better understanding the potential, challenges and inter-relationships between racial, climate and socio-economic justice, I co-founded the Legal Mobilisation Platform (LMP). The LMP is a non-hierarchical / non-patriarchal space of co-creation involving an interdisciplinary and international group of both scholars and practitioners. The work of the LMP centres on the question: How can we understand and strategically strengthen various forms of legal mobilisation, and those who engage in it, in order to address key accountability challenges at the local and global levels, in ways that are impactful, legitimate and supportive of the rule of law, and ultimately contribute to systemic justice? Applying an intersectional approach to addressing these three broad forms of (in)justice has allowed us to cultivate a broader conversation around the potential role of law in mobilising for systemic justice, both as an academic project and as a community of praxis. In this paper I will explain how the LMP is addressing both through three initiatives, namely: preserving protest as a threshold right, promoting legal clinical education (which in the Netherlands is in its nascent stages) and coming to terms with the Netherlands slavery and colonial heritage through a Peoples’ Truth Commission.

Period	6 Jun 2024
Event type	Conference
Location	Denver, United States, ColoradoShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International