Global Pro Bono
Causes, Context, and Contestation
Published on 6. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
749 pages
978-1-108-46992-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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 StudiesMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 15 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
1066 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-46992-0 (9781108469920)
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Additional editions
Scott L. Cummings | Fabio de Sa e Silva | Louise G. Trubek
Global Pro Bono
Causes, Context, and Contestation
Book
04/2022
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
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.
Content
What is global about pro bono and what is global pro bono about? Scott L. Cummings, Fabio de Sa e Silva & Louise G. Trubek; Part I. The Americas: 2.Rationalizing pro bono: corporate social responsibility and the reinvention of legal professionalism in elite American law firms John Bliss , Steven A. Boutcher; 3.Pro bono legal work in Canada Robert Granfield , Fiona Kay; 4. Two tales of one Brazilian city: individual pro bono cases in sao paulo corporate law firms Fabio de Sa e Silva; 5. The mandarins of law: pro bono legal work in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia Daniel Bonilla Maldonado; Part II. Europe: 6. Le Pro Bono: The development of pro bono practice in Europe Edwin Rekosh, Lamin Khadar; 7. An explosion of legal philanthropy? The transformation of pro bono legal services in England and Wales Andrew Boon, Avis Whyte; 8. No attorneys without generosity: why do lawyers practice pro bono? A French perspective Louis Assier-Andrieu & Jeremy Perleman; 9.Narrowing the justice gap: clearinghouses for Spain Leire Larracoechea San Sebastian, Michelle Ha, S. Todd Crider;10. Pro bono in Portugal Susana Santos; 11. Lawyers' pro bono work in Denmark Annette Olesen, Ole Hammerslev; Part III. Australia: 12. The tripartite effect of pro bono: contemplating the Australian experience Fiona McLeay, Lucy Adams; Part 1V. Africa: 13. Pro bono in South Africa Thabang Pooe, Alice Brown, Jonathan Klaaren; 14. The evolution of pro bono legal services in Nigeria Jayanth K. Krishnan, Kunle Ajagbe; Part V. Asia: 15. The evolving contours of private pro bono practice in India: local and global contexts Arpita Gupta; 16. Pro bono in Singapore Helena Whalen-Bridge, Robert Granfield; 17. The rise of private public interest lawyers in China Jin Dong, Qian Cheng