Transformation of Legal Aid Comparative and Historical Studies

Name: Transformation of Legal Aid Comparative and Historical Studies
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ISBN: 9780198265894

ISBN-10: 0198265891

ISBN-13: 9780198265894

Edition: 1999

Authors: Francis Regan, Alan Paterson, Tamara Goriely, Donald Fleming

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Publicly funded legal aid has undergone rapid change in this century. Developing from charity to large scale, publicly funded schemes, legal aid flourished in many western countries in the 1960s and 1970s. But, during the 1980s governments began to lose faith in publicly funded legal aid. In the 1990s major funding and eligibility cuts have occurred in Sweden, England and Wales, the USA, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. To answer the need for a better understanding of the extraordinary rise and fall of legal aid, this book brings together contributions from the leading international scholars in the field. Researchers from north America, Europe and Australia examine the origins of…

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List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/23/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Donald Fleming was Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University.




Historical Studies



Earl Johnson, Jr, Justice, California Court of Appeal: Justice and reform a quarter century later



John Kilwein, Associate Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University, USA: The decline of the Legal Services Corporation: its ideological, stupid!



Frederick H Zemans and Aneurin Thomas, Oswoode Hall Law School, University of York, Ontario, Canada: Can community clinics survive? A comparative study of law centres in Australia, Ontario and England



Tamara Goriely, Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies: Making the welfare state work: changing conceptions of legal remedies within the British welfare state



Comparative Studies



Erhard Blankenburg, Professor, Faculteir der Rechtsgeleerdheird, Vrije University, The Netherlands: The lawyers' lobby and the welfare state: the political economy of legal aid



Cyrus Tata, Lecturer in Socio Legal Studies, the Centre for Sentencing Research, Law School, University of Strathclyde: Comparing Legal Aid Spending: The Promise and Perils of a Jurisdiction-Centred Approach to (International) Legal Aid Research



Mel Cousins: Legal aid reform in France and the Republic of Ireland in the 1990s






Emerging Themes



Jon T Johnsen, Professor of Law, University of Oslo, Norway: Studies of legal needs and legal aid in a market context



Alan Paterson, Professor of Law, University of Strathclyde and Avrom Sherr, Professor of Legal Education, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies: Quality legal services: the dog that did not bark



Don Fleming, Senior Lecturer in Law. University of Canberra, Australia: Responding to new demands: legal aid and multi-party actions