Histories of Legal Aid - A Comparative and International Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
Release date:	2022
First published:	2021
Editors:	Felice Batlan • Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	330
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-080270-7
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	3-03-080270-1
Barcode:	9783030802707

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