Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States

Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States
Author: Olaf Halvorsen Rønning
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2017-12-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319466844

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the differences and similarities between civil legal aid schemes in the Nordic countries whilst outlining recent legal aid transformations in their respective welfare states. Based on in-depth studies of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland, the authors compare these cases with legal aid in Europe and the US to examine whether a single, unique Nordic model exists. Contextualizing Nordic legal aid in relation to welfare ideology and human rights, Hammerslev and Halvorsen Rønning consider whether flaws in the welfare state exist, and how legal aid affects disadvantaged citizens. Concluding that the five countries all have very different legal aid schemes, the authors explore an important general trend: welfare states increasingly outsourcing legal aid to the market and the third sector through both membership organizations and smaller voluntary organizations. A methodical and compassionate text, this book will be of special interest to scholars and students of the criminal justice, the welfare state, and the legal aid system.

The Global Clinical Movement

The Global Clinical Movement
Author: Frank S. Bloch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2011
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0195381149

Clinical legal education is playing an increasingly important role in educating lawyers worldwide. In The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice, editor Frank S. Bloch and contributors describe the central concepts, goals, and methods of clinical legal education from a global perspective, with a particular emphasis on its social justice mission. With chapters written by leading clinical legal educators from every region of the world, The Global Clinical Movement demonstrates how the emerging global clinical movement can advance social justice through legal education. Professor Bloch and the contributors also examine the influence of clinical legal education on the legal academy and the legal profession and chart the global clinical movement's future role in educating lawyers for social justice. The Global Clinical Movement consists of three parts. Part I describes clinical legal education programs from every region of the world and discusses those qualities that are unique to a particular country or region. Part II discusses the various ways that clinical programs and the clinical methodology advance the cause of social justice around the world. Part III analyzes the current state of the global clinical movement and sets out an agenda for the movement to advance social justice through socially relevant legal education.

Law and Development

Law and Development
Author: John Hatchard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1135335451

This new book is an edited collection of papers arising from a conference on Law and Development in the twenty-first century held in 2001. It is in honour of the work of Dr Peter Slinn.

Legal Aid

Legal Aid
Author:
Publisher: Raman Mittal
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2012
Genre: Legal aid
ISBN: 8192120422

Papers presented at an international conference.

Politics By Other Means

Politics By Other Means
Author: Richard Abel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136650490

Politics by Other Means explores the fundamental question of how law can constrain political power by offering a pathbreaking account of the triumphant final decade of the struggle against apartheid. Richard Abel presents case studies of ten major legal campaigns including: challenges to pass laws; black trade union demands for recognition; state terror; censorship; resistance to the "independent" homelands; and treason trials.