Despite international conventions and human rights declarations,
millions of people have suffered and continue to suffer torture,
slavery, or violent deaths, with no remedy or recourse. They have
fallen, in essence, "below the law," outside of law's protection.
Often violated by their own governments, sometimes with support
from transnational corporations, or nations benefiting from human
rights violations, how can these victims find justice? Lawyers
Beyond Borders reveals the inner workings of the advances and
retreats in the quest for redress and restoration of human rights
for those whom international legal-political systems have failed.
The process of justice begins in the US, with a handful of human
rights lawyers steeped in the American tradition of advancing civil
rights through civil litigation. As the civil rights movement
gained traction and an ample supply of lawyers, this small cadre
turned their attention toward advancing international human rights,
via the US legal system. They sought to build another piece of the
rights revolution, this time for survivors of egregious human
rights violations in faraway lands. These cases were among the most
unlikely to be slated for victory: The abuses occurred abroad; the
victims are aliens, usually with few, if any, resources; the
perpetrators are politically powerful, resourced, and well
connected, often members of governments, militaries, or
multinational corporations. The legal and political systems'
structures are mostly stacked against these survivors, many who
bear the scars of trauma and terror. Lawyers Beyond Borders is
about agency. It is about how, in the face of powerful interests
and seemingly insurmountable obstacles-political, psychological,
economic, geographical, and physical-a small group of lawyers and
survivors navigated a terrain of daunting barriers to begin
building, case-by-case, new pathways to justice for those who
otherwise would have none.
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