Overview
- Provides important new research on the history of legal aid and re-evaluates older theories
- Seeks to understand the development of legal aid as part of a transnational phenomenon
- Examines how legal aid could be connected to liberalism, state building projects, capitalism and Progressive-era reform
Part of the book series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence (WHCCV)
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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.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Grand Histories of Legal Aid
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Growing Needs and New Providers: Legal Aid at the Fin de Siècle
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Politics, Memory, and the Writing of History
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About the editors
Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen is University Lecturer in Legal History at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the author of Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession (2020), and several articles on the history of legal education, the legal profession, and the courts.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Histories of Legal Aid
Book Subtitle: A Comparative and International Perspective
Editors: Felice Batlan, Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen
Series Title: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80271-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80270-7Published: 13 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80273-8Published: 14 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80271-4Published: 12 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-9630
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 330
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social History, Cultural History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Legal History, Crime and Society