How to Fight for What's Right is a guide for both lawyers and lay people offering guidance through the legal thickets they face when they take on government and business in the courts. This book will meet the needs of environmentalists, civil rights organizations, consumer groups, lawyers, and legal staff of community law clinics--it's the guide that shows citizen groups how to use the legal system to their advantage. First published in 1981, How to Fight for What's Right remains a practical and useful guide to advocacy and the law.

""Studies the politics of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in contemporary India"--Provided by publisher".

It is a matter of great pleasure for me to present this book "Law of Public Interest Litigation in India & Other Countries" to Common People of India who have interest in Judicial Activism (PIL). The fundamental objective of Public Interest Litigation is to give to the common people access to the courts to obtain legal redress and maintaining the Rule of law and accelerating the balance between law and justice for social-change. The Book "Law of Public Interest Litigation in India & other countries" offers the Concept and History of Public Interest Litigation. The Procedure of Public Interest Litigation filing before Courts. Landmark Cases of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Activism for social Justice. The Book shares Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in USA, UK and other counties with landmark cases and also gives introduction of Public Interest Litigation in Australia, Canada, South Africa. Japan and France. The Book covers important key issues and topics of Public Interest Litigation Cases in India: Unlawful Arrest and Detention, Child Labour and Basic Education, Gender Justice, Health Care (medical aid to preserve life), Protection of Fundamental Rights, Property Rights of women, Animal Rights and Protection, Access to Information etc. The Book further describe the role of Eminent Public Interest Litigation Activists Lawyers and Judges in India. This Book is useful for Lawyers, Law Students, Young Advocates, Social Activists, RTI Activist and General Public.

Public Interest Lawyering is the first comprehensive analysis of public interest lawyering that is suitable as a law school elective text and/or advanced legal profession courses and seminars. Drawing upon a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this timely textbook examines the lives of public interest lawyers, the clients and causes they serve, the contexts within which they work, the strategies they deploy, and the challenges they face today. Features: The first comprehensive overview of the broad range of contemporary issues faced by public interest lawyers in any American law school text. Thorough discussion of important theoretical issues about the scope and definition of public interest lawyering. Addresses American public interest law from a historical perspective with focus on current issues. Expansive examination of the settings in which public interest practice occurs, including nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and private law firms. Presents the advantages and limits of different legal strategies in public interest practice, including lobbying, public education, community organizing, and community economic development. Addresses contemporary challenges of public interest law in context, including economics and financing, legal ethics, the role of legal education, and the globalization of public interest practice. Discusses critiques of public interest law, including a reflection about the role of lawyers in social movements that addresses contemporary critiques. Ethical obligations of public interest lawyers. Explores special issues related to lawyer-client relations in social change contexts. Extensive coverage of: Models of law reform organizations. Conservative cause lawyering. Government lawyers. The economics of social change lawyering. Global social change lawyering.

Leading experts from common law jurisdictions examine defamation and privacy, two major and interrelated issues for law and media.