Mobilising the Market

An Empirical Analysis of Crowdfunding for Judicial Review Litigation

Bibliographic Data

ID13618489
AuthorsSam Guy (0000-0003-0119-222X, Environmental Law Institute, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume86
Issue2
Pages331-363
Publication date2022-11-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueModern Law Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-7961 • E-ISSN: 1468-2230
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2230.12770
OpenAlexW4308209974
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited3

This article provides an analysis of 413 crowdfunding campaigns raising funds for judicial review cases. In doing so, it empirically captures the judicial review crowdfunding landscape for the first time, drawing attention to the divergent rates of funding and generating a profile of the actors using the resource based on their geographic scope and their litigation experience. Noting the proliferation of campaigns seeking social goals beyond the immediate litigation, it argues that crowdfunding reveals, and gives rise to, an important reality of legal mobilisation that has received insufficient recognition – the use of law for social change by groups that are inexperienced or locally‐oriented. It therefore constructs a typology for understanding these broader patterns of legal mobilisation, accounting for the dimensions of scale and litigation experience

Business · Economics · Judicial opinion · Law and economics · Political science · Public relations · Raising (metalworking · Resource (disambiguation · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Typology · Community Development and Social Impact · Engineering · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa

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