ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author draws on his own experiences as a summer clerk with the Southern Africa Project and as an observer of political trials in Namibia to help explain the activities and impact of this international project of the Lawyers' Committee. He deals with the view that there may be many other countries in which the techniques of the Lawyers' Committee could be successfully used to promote observance of the rule of law and internationally recognized human rights. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law had its beginning at a meeting in the White House on June 21, 1963. The Lawyers' Committee cooperated with the Lutheran World Federation, the South African Council of Churches, the United Nations Trust Fund for Southern Africa, and other organizations in arranging for financing of the defense of the Swakopmund trial and in publicizing this trial and its results.
