| 英文摘要 |
The increasing importance of the research on legal mobilization in the field of law and society studies cannot be overlooked. It is now almost impossible to imagine any research companion or handbook in the fields of law and society or law and politics would be published without including a chapter on legal mobilization. The burgeoning legal mobilization research pertains to the increased utilization of litigations by social activism in the United States and around the world. Since progressive camps won the landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade in the US Supreme Court, more and more organizations aiming to advance their social reform agenda had purposefully taken on the path of litigations. The social phenomenon of the common tactics has interested many sociologists, political scientists as well as socio-legal scholars to put in resources to know why social groups use law and rights as a strategy. The aggregative empirical works or case studies of legal mobilization have helped to develop fruitful theoretical frameworks to analyze this form of litigations and rights advocacy. Through reviewing the literature on legal mobilization, this article first discusses the diversified definition and scope of legal mobilization among scholars in this field. The different definitions and core concerns of legal mobilization had generated two separated yet equally important approaches to the understanding and analysis of mobilization of law: one from a microscopic and interpersonal perspective and the other from a macroscopic and structural perspective. This article further reviews Taiwan’s research on legal mobilization in the past decade, including a few groundbreaking articles and master theses, and in the final part gives suggestions for future research directions on Taiwan’s legal mobilization research. |
