Screen LibraryHistories of legal aid : a comparative and international perspective /
"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 a...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham, Switzerland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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World histories of crime, culture and violence,
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| Summary: |
"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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783030802738 3030802736 |
| Index Number: | K133 |
| CLC: | D916.5-09 |
| Call Number: | D916.5-09/H673 |
| Contents: |
Understanding the history of legal aid in an international and comparative perspective / The persistent question of legal aid in the professional development of Russian lawyers / From pro Deo to pro Pecunia. An institutional history of legal aid in Belgium / The historical evolution of legal aid in China from the perspective of globalisation (1890-2003) / For workers and for the disadvantaged : legal advice centres in Germany from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century / "To poor and rich alike" : legal modernisation, the women's movement, and legal aid in late-nineteenth-century Finland / Lawyers providing legal aid in print : legal question and answer columns in Finnish newspapers around 1900 / The organisation of l'Assistance Judicaire, the politics of poverty, and the rewriting of history in nineteenth-century France / Training and disciplining lawyers through legal aid : Chile, 1932-1960s / Archival confrontations and rewriting the history of legal aid in the U.S. / |