Access to Justice and Legal Empowerment. Making the Poor Central in Legal Development Co-operation

• Main Author: van Rooij, Benjamin (auth)
• Other Authors: van de Meene, Ineke (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden University Press 2008
• Series: Law, Governance, and Development
• Subjects: Law & society; law; sociology; developing countries; Alternative dispute resolution; Civil society; Empowerment; Legal aid; Right to a fair trial
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Reforms to improve poor people's access to justice and to promote their legal empowerment comprise the latest trend in legal development cooperation. This volume answers a number of basic questions about this new trend, such as access to justice and legal empowerment entail and its importance;...