Global Pro Bono: Causes, Context, and Contestation

The principle and practice of pro bono, or volunteer legal services for the poor and other marginalized groups, is an increasingly important feature of justice systems around the world. Pro bono initiatives now exist in more than eighty countries - including Colombia, Portugal, Nigeria, and Singapore - and the list keeps growing. Covering the spread of pro bono across five continents, this book provides a unique data set permitting the first-ever comparative analysis of pro bono's growing role in the access to justice movement. The contributors are leading experts from around the world, whose chapters examine both the internal roots of and global influences on pro bono in transnational context. Global Pro Bono explores the dramatically expanding geographical and political reach of pro bono: documenting its essential contribution to bringing more justice to those on the margins, while underscoring its complex and contested meaning in different parts of the world.

Author: Scott L. Cummings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/07/2022
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.56lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.56d
ISBN: 9781108476157

About the Author
Cummings, Scott L.: - Scott L. Cummings is Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics at UCLA School of Law, where he teaches and writes about the legal profession, public interest law, law and social movements, and community economic development. He is the director of Legal Ethics and the Profession (LEAP), a program on the challenges facing the contemporary legal profession.de Sa E. Silva, Fabio: - Fabio de Sa e Silva is Assistant Professor of International Studies and the Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is also an affiliated fellow at Harvard Law School's Center on the Legal Profession. He studies the social organization and the political impact of law and justice in Brazil and comparatively.Trubek, Louise G.: - Louise G. Trubek is an Emerita Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she founded the Center for Public Representation. Louise is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Yale Law School. An active scholar, she does research on public policy, public administration and human rights, and the legal profession.