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Articles by Erin Kitchell
How to pay for legal empowerment: alternative structures and sources
Taking a hybrid approach to legal funding recognizes that different issues require different types of funding. Legal empowerment organisations help people use the law themselves to solve their most pressing justice problems. These problems don’t necessarily capture headlines—for example, obtaining an ID or getting advice on entitlements when leaving a marriage.
Intellectual property as a tool of empowerment
When much broader communities can harness intellectual property rights, these shifts can contribute to reducing inequality and improving the standard of life for many of the world’s poor. Photo: Fups/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Intellectual property has become a powerful instrument for creating wealth. As “creations of the mind,” intellectual property includes symbols, names, and images used in commerce, as well as inventions, literary and artistic works, and designs.
Legal empowerment allows indigenous Ecuadoreans to fight multinationals
In Ecuador, more than one million people recognize themselves as indigenous. Environmental conflicts that hinge upon extracting natural resources from local communities—who regularly bear the negative effects of such activities—are rising all over the world. The problem is most acute in countries of the global South, which are rich not only in commodities but also in cultures and biodiversity.
A shared learning agenda takes legal empowerment to the next level
Legal empowerment can be transformative across a wide range of issues, which can sometimes make such efforts feel disconnected. But practitioners need clearer questions to maximize their experience and knowledge. Photo: Joshua Wanyama - Flickr - (CC BY 2.0) - Some rights reserved With more than 1,500 organizations and nearly 6,000 individual members, the Global Legal Empowerment Network offers a platform for connecting and sharing ideas.
Nature's Finance
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” –Aldo Leopold, Foreword to A Sand County Almanac (1949), viii Introduction Eric Nost The practice of environmental conservation has come a long way since Aldo Leopold’s famous diagnosis of ecological degradation’s causes and his call for re-envisioning our relationship to the land.
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