Book contents
- Global Pro Bono
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Global Pro Bono
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter One What Is Global about Pro Bono and What Is Global Pro Bono About?
- Part One The Americas
- Chapter Two Rationalizing Pro Bono: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Reinvention of Legal Professionalism in Elite American Law Firms
- Chapter Three Pro Bono Legal Work in Canada
- Chapter Four Private Law Practice and the Public Good: Individual Pro Bono’s Institutionalization in São Paulo Law Firms
- Chapter Five The Mandarins of the Law: Pro Bono Legal Work in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia
- Part Two Europe
- Part Three OCEANIA
- Part Four Africa
- Part Five Asia
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Chapter Five - The Mandarins of the Law: Pro Bono Legal Work in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia
from Part One - The Americas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 May 2022
- Global Pro Bono
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Global Pro Bono
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter One What Is Global about Pro Bono and What Is Global Pro Bono About?
- Part One The Americas
- Chapter Two Rationalizing Pro Bono: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Reinvention of Legal Professionalism in Elite American Law Firms
- Chapter Three Pro Bono Legal Work in Canada
- Chapter Four Private Law Practice and the Public Good: Individual Pro Bono’s Institutionalization in São Paulo Law Firms
- Chapter Five The Mandarins of the Law: Pro Bono Legal Work in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia
- Part Two Europe
- Part Three OCEANIA
- Part Four Africa
- Part Five Asia
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Summary
In liberal democracies, lawyers have societal obligations that are directly connected to the right of access to justice. Access to justice provides citizens with the ability to turn to the judicial and administrative bodies of the state to enforce their rights. The right of access to justice is multifaceted. It may include the ability to introduce and challenge evidence presented at trial, to have a translator when necessary to understand the trial proceedings, and to have a lawyer represent one’s interests before state judicial and administrative bodies. Modern liberal democracies have developed four institutions to realize the state’s and lawyers’ obligations to the right of all members of the political community to access a lawyer: public defender’s offices, court-appointed counsel, legal clinics, and pro bono work. These institutions aim to eliminate the access-to-justice deficit that exists in all modern liberal democracies to varying degrees.
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- Global Pro BonoCauses, Context, and Contestation, pp. 169 - 212Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022