Global Pro Bono

Causes, Context, and Contestation

Scott L. Cummings (University of California, Los Angeles), Fabio de Sa e Silva, Louise G. Trubek (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

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Cambridge University Press
07 April 2022

Law & society

Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

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.

Edited by: Scott L. Cummings (University of California Los Angeles), Fabio de Sa e Silva, Louise G. Trubek (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 1.200kg
ISBN: 9781108476157
ISBN 10: 1108476155
Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Pages: 750
Publication Date: 07 April 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Scott L. Cummings is the Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics at the UCLA School of Law, where he teaches and writes about the legal profession, law and social change, and local government law. He is the faculty director of UCLA's Program on Legal Ethics and the Profession. 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. Louise G. Trubek is clinical professor of law emerita 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.

Reviews for Global Pro Bono: Causes, Context, and Contestation

'Anyone interested in Socio-Legal studies at large should find in this book a certain degree of satisfaction, for it covers familiar topics such as legal services provisions, law and globalisation, or lawyers' ethics.' Pierre-Louis Sanchez, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies