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ACCESS TO JUSTICE
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ACCESS TO JUSTICE

Thematic Overview

The Global Thematic Reports will analyze specific pervasive themes of the modern access to justice movement.

Inspired by the Florence Access to Justice Project’s ‘wave metaphor’, the thematic lines recollect Cappelletti’s three waves and go further to analyze subsequent and latest developments.

1.

The first wave (dimension):

costs of resolving disputes within the formal judicial machinery and legal aid services to the poorest and most vulnerable people

2.

The second wave (dimension):

the contemporary initiatives to give representation to diffuse/collective rights

3.

The third wave (dimension):

the initiatives to improve the procedure and institutions that comprise the disputeprocessing machinery

3.1

Civil Procedure

3.2

Criminal Procedure

3.3

Alternative Dispute Resolution

3.4

Simplification of law and by-passing legal process

4.

The fourth wave (dimension):

professional legal ethics and lawyers’ access to justice

5.

The fifth wave (dimension):

the contemporary process of internationalization of human rights protection

6.

The sixth wave (dimension):

promising initiatives and new technologies for improving access to justice

7.

The seventh wave (dimension):

race and gender inequality in justice systems

8.

Sociological approaches:

(unmet) legal needs and the sociology of (in)justice

8.1

(Unmet) legal needs

8.2

The sociology of (in)justice

9.

Anthropological and postcolonial approaches:

cultural dimensions of the access problem and learning from First Nation peoples

10.

Legal education

11.

Global efforts promoting access to justice