When They Come for You
Legal Mobilization in New Authoritarian Russia
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4085341 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Freek Van Der Vet (0000-0001-6091-5729, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2018 |
| Volumen | 52 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 301-336 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lasr.12339 |
| OpenAlex | W2800589503 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 39 |
| Referencias citadas | 62 |
As of 2012, the Russian State Duma passed a string of repressive laws on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), surveillance, and high treason. Under this "new authoritarian" regime, a growing number of Russians are investigated by the security services or put on trial for high treason. NGOs face selective prosecution and surprise inspections. While we know how lawyers use legal mobilization in democratic regimes where they can expect courts to be fair, legal mobilization remains understudied in regimes moving toward authoritarianism, where authorities pass repressive laws but enforce them erratically. Drawing on interviews with Russian lawyers, this article examines how lawyers represent two victim groups of state coercion: Russians under investigation for treason and prosecuted human rights NGOs. By examining how lawyers make strategic choices while coping with unfair courts, the random enforcement of laws, and shrinking resources, this article argues that state coercion does not deter lawyers from legal mobilization at domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights. Instead, repressive laws push lawyers to reinvent their everyday practices to counter repressive legislation and conviction bias in the criminal justice system
Authoritarianism · Coercion (linguistics · Conviction · Democracy · Human rights · Mobilization · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations
Between Autocratic Legalism and Traditional Values
European Human Rights Justice and Privatisation
Les paradoxes du recours au droit dans les mobilisations contre les violences policières en Russie
Collective deskilling, value displacement and newsroom de-professionalization under autocratization
Navigating Codified Gender Inequality
Sanctions Litigation before the European Union’s Court of Justice
Comprehensive law-based governance in China? Legislating authoritarianism in the Xi Jinping era
Online publicity and outcomes of individual politically salient criminal cases in an authoritarian regime
Oversight of the Legal System in an Authoritarian Regime
Human Rights Violations Committed Against Human Rights Defenders Through the Use of Legal System
Legal Dualism as a Framework for Analyzing the Role of Law under Authoritarianism
Legal Mobilization and Authoritarianism
Economic instruments of political control
Performing Artivism
State-Sponsored Activism
In Transit, Towards Transformation? Penal Change in Russia in a Contested Political Landscape
Conceptualizing Legal Mobilization
Spies, Lies, Trials, and Trolls
The Good Lawyer
Violence in Queer Families
Des victoires juridiques sans effet? Luttes juridiques autochtones et reconnaissance fragmentée au Paraguay
Backlash against rights
A broken trust
Activists in International Courts
Nature versus Nurture
Explaining the variations in legal mobilization of environmental nongovernmental organizations in authoritarian China
Resisting illiberal politics
Embedded supervision
Quarantined judicial expansion
The legal complex fractured
The groundwork of Putin’s war
What makes an international institution work for labor activists? Shaping international law through strategic litigation
Foreign agents or agents of justice? Private foundations, backlash against non-governmental organizations, and international human rights litigation
Guerrilla Lawyering
NGOs, international courts, and state backlash against human rights accountability
"Closeted" cause lawyering in authoritarian Cambodia
Citizenship in the shadow of law
Turning on the lights? Publicity and defensive legal mobilization in protest-related trials in Russia
Beyond litigation
Cause Lawyers and Social Movements
The European Court and Civil Society
Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies
The Rights Revolution
The Helsinki Effect
Trafficking Justice
China's Human Rights Lawyers
The Last Utopia
The Struggle for Constitutional Power
The Politics of Fear
Evaluating the Prospects for Young Lawyers to Remake Putin’s Russia
Cause Lawyering in Revolutionary Ukraine
Implementing International Human Rights Law at Home
Seeking Life, Finding Justice
Law and Courts in Authoritarian Regimes
Law and Social Movements
Political opportunities in non-democracies
Violence and human rights in Russia
Redefining Citizenship in Russia
Cracks in the Wall
Suing Russia at Home
The Sword of Damocles
Russian Modernisation—A New Paradigm
Criminalisation of Free Speech in Russia
Political Opposition in Russia
Post-Soviet Civil Society Development in the Russian Federation
Putin's ‘Preventive Counter-Revolution’
Holding on to Legalism
Resisting Multiple Narratives of Law in Transition Countries
Tunisia's “Revolutionary” Lawyers
Activist Lawyers in Post-Tiananmen China
Political Dissent, Human Rights, and Legal Transformations
The European Court of Human Rights, Amicus Curiae, and Violence against Women
Individuals, Courts, and the Development of European Social Rights
Advocacy beyond litigation
Faking performance together
Internet control through ownership
Three dilemmas of hybrid regime governance
Resurgent authoritarianism
The Rule of Law and the Frankenstate
Who Sues Government
Complaint-making as political participation in contemporary Russia
Who demands collective action in an imperfect institutional environment? a case study of the profession of advocates in Russia
The Dual State in Russia
Managing Society
The Practice of Law as an Obstacle to Justice
The Dictatorship of Reason
Political Liberalism and Political Embeddedness
Legal Opportunity Structures and the Paradox of Legal Mobilization by the Environmental Movement in the UK
Why the "Haves" Come Out Ahead
Lawyers, Political Embeddedness, and Institutional Continuity in China's Transition from Socialism
| Obras citantes distintas | 39 |
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| Citas por año | 5,57 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 38 |