书目名称 | Histories of Legal Aid |
副标题 | A Comparative and In |
编辑 | Felice Batlan,Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen |
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概述 | Provides important new research on the history of legal aid and re-evaluates older theories.Seeks to understand the development of legal aid as part of a transnational phenomenon.Examines how legal ai |
丛书名称 | World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence |
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描述 | .This book focuses on the history of the provision of legal aid and legal assistance to the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eight different countries. It is the first such book to bring together historical work on legal aid in a comparative perspective, and allows readers to analogise and contrast historical narratives about free legal aid across countries. Legal aid developed as a result of industrialisation, urbanization, immigration, the rise of philanthropy, and what were viewed as new legal problems. Closely related, was the growing professionalisation of lawyers and the question of what duties lawyers owed society to perform free work. Yet, legal aid providers in many countries included lay women and men, leading at times to tensions with the bar. Furthermore, legal aid often became deeply politicized, creating dramatic conflicts concerning the rights of the poor to have equal access to justice.. |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
关键词 | legal assistance; welfare state; right to fair trial; deserving poor; human rights |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80271-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-80273-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-80271-4Series ISSN 2730-9630 Series E-ISSN 2730-9649 |
issn_series | 2730-9630 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |