Established in 1993, Institute for Development Education and Learning – Centre for Social Justice (henceforth referred as CSJ) is a human rights organisation fighting for the rights of the marginalised and the vulnerable, principally in the sphere of access to justice. Inspired by Freirean thought, CSJ has been active in more than ten States across India creating human rights interventions using the law as a key strategy through an intimate engagement with grassroots realities. Over the last 25 years, CSJ’s experience in the access to justice field has led to the development of a unique conceptualisation of vulnerability founded in the interface between individual and collective identities. This has meant that CSJ not only assists in the empowerment of vulnerable communities through the enforcement of socio-economic and civil-political rights but also (within a broadly restorative view of justice), more crucially, engages with reordering social relations that perpetuate discrimination and violence with a view towards a long-term re-alignment of intra- and inter-community dynamics of power. CSJ works with the law as a medium to bring about social change and legal empowerment among the vulnerable and marginalised communities.