Mark Gevisser is one of South Africa’s foremost authors and journalists. His books include The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers; Lost and Found in Johannesburg; and the award-winning A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of South Africa’s Dream. His journalism and criticism has been published widely, in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta, and many other publications

Katie Redford is a lawyer with expertise in human rights, climate change and corporate accountability. She is executive director of the Equation Campaign, which confronts the climate crisis by “supporting movements on the ground to keep fossil fuels in the ground.” She was a co-founder and director of EarthRights International, where she oversaw litigation, training and campaigns programs to hold corporations and other perpetrators legally accountable for human rights and environmental abuses worldwide.

Some Personal Reflections on People-Power and Legal Power: A Foreword, by Jane Fonda
"It Takes A Lawyer, an Activist and a Storyteller": An Introduction to this book, by Mark Gevisser

Case Study - Human Rights: Doe vs Unocal
The Activist's Perspective: The Revolution will not be Litigated, by Ka Hsaw Wa
The Lawyer's Perspective: It's All About Power, by Katie Redford

Lawyers on People Power
Lawyering, Leadership and Learning Lessons: My Journey in the Black Lives Matter Movement, by Justin Hansford
Who Owns The Streets?: The roots of the Movement for Black Lives in New York City's 'Stop and Frisk' Case, by Baher Azmy
Five Ways a Legal Strategy Can Help a Movement, by Baher Azmy
'The Law is Too Important to be Left in the Hands of Lawyers Alone': Protecting Detainees during the Lebanese Uprising, by Ghida Frangieh
From police torture to surveillance: What it means to be a "human rights lawyer" in Putin's Russia, Pavel Chikov in conversation with Mark Gevisser
Law, Information and Power: On Being Julian Assange's Lawyer, by Jennifer Robinson
Building Spaces of Hope: Working for Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Mexico, by Alejandra Ancheita
The River Brings Oil: Working for Indigenous Peoples' Rights in the Peruvian Amazon, by Marissa Vahlsing and Benjamin Hoffman
The Path to Legal Empowerment: Holding China accountable for environmental pollution at home and abroad, by JingJing Zhang.
The Decriminalisation of Homosexuality in Kenya, Njeri Gateru in conversation with Mark Gevisser.

Case Study - Financial Accountability : The World Bank
The Activist's Perspective: From Narmada to Tata Mundra in India, by Joe Athialy
The Lawyer's Perspective: Narrative Justice in the Global Financial Accountability Movement, by David Hunter

Activists on Legal Power
Jonny and Me: Three Decades of Debating 'The Power of Law' and 'The Power of People' with Jonathan Cooper OBE, by Robin Gorna
Learning from the South African AIDS Treatment Action Campaign: Rethinking law's relationship with social justice movements, by Mark Heywood
She Would Have Reproductive Justice": A Story from Ireland's Movement to Repeal the 8th Amendment - and the Ongoing Fight, by Eimear Sparks.
The Rule of Law vs Poland's Repressive 'Law and Justice' Regime, Klementyna Suchanow in conversation with Eimear Sparks
Ending Female Genital Cutting: What About the Law?, by Julia Lalla-Maharajh OBE
Law and Stones: Sex Workers' Rights in Kenya, by Phelister Abdalla
A Community, its Abusive Chief, and the Role of the Law: The Story of Nwoase in Ghana, by Nana Ama Nketia-Quaidoo
Standing Up At Standing Rock: An Indigenous Warrior's Experience, Krystal TwoBulls in conversation with Mark Gevisser and Katie Redford

Case Study - Climate Emergency
The Lawyer's Perspective: Why the Climate Emergency Needs Lawyers to Break the Law, by Farhana Yamin
The Veteran Activist's Perspective: From Racial apartheid to Climate apartheid, Kumi Naidoo in conversation with Mark Gevisser
The Youth Activist's Perspective: On Being a Young Brown Woman on the Frontline, by Ayisha Siddiqa
The Conversation: The Youth Climate Justice Movement, David Wicker and others.

Rules for Radical Lawyers
Rules for Radical Lawyers: A Practical Primer, by Katie Redford
From IRAC to VISTA, by Katie Redford