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The Mechanisms behind Litigation's “Radiating Effects”: Historical Grievances against Japan

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Abstract

Scholars argue that litigation can have positive and negative “radiating” or indirect effects for social movements, irrespective of formal judicial decisions. They see litigation as a dynamic process with distinctive features yet nonetheless intertwined with advocacy in other forums. Litigation can indirectly shape collective identities, reframe debates, or provide political leverage. However, the mechanisms behind these radiating effects are poorly understood. Through an analysis of lawsuits and related activism by Korean survivors of Japanese actions in the first half of the twentieth century, this article disaggregates the mechanisms behind litigation's productive indirect effects. It theorizes and illustrates mechanisms such as attribution of similarity, brokerage, issue dramatization, political cover, and intergroup discussions. These mechanisms help us understand how litigants obtain litigation's indirect effects and thus also the broader impact of postwar compensation lawsuits in East Asia, despite few judicial victories. The article contributes non-Western and transnational cases to scholarship on litigation's indirect effects.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 6 - 40
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Footnotes

I thank Logan Strother, Jennifer Dixon, Sheila Smith, the editors, and anonymous reviewers for their feedback. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Council on Foreign Relations, the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies. Thanks for superb research assistance from Miho Moon and Leslie Kim. This research would not have been possible without the generosity and honesty of the plaintiffs, lawyers, journalists, activists, and scholars with whom I spoke in Japan and Korea. I am also grateful for the fellowship year at the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University in 2017–18 and research support from the George Washington University Institute for Korean Studies.

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