Researchers Kieran McEvoy and Anna Bryson published an article in the Modern Law Review Journal, Volume 85, Issue 1 of 2022, titled: “Boycott, Resistance and the Law: Cause Lawyering in Conflict and Authoritarianism.” This article studies the job of cause lawyers in contexts of conflict or authoritarianism where chances of victory are often very little. Through referring to multiple sources of literature, this paper explores the way power is challenged and weakened by cause lawyers. The first part of the paper examines the methods and strategies of cause lawyers who boycott court cases, and the relationship between these boycotts and broader political struggles, legality and law. Next, it takes a look at how courts turn into sites of symbolic resistance. This study argues that boycotting and resisting in courts can prevent law from being used as a tool of denial and wrongdoing and therefore maintains a ‘stubborn optimism’ in the rule of law. For Further details, click here.