Histories of Legal Aid: A Comparative and International Perspective

Chapter 1. Introduction: Understanding the History of Legal Aid in an International and Comparative Perspective.- Chapter 2. The Persistent Question of Legal Aid in the Professional Development of Russian Lawyers.- Chapter 3. From pro Deo to pro Pecunia. An Institutional History of Legal Aid in Belgium.- Chapter 4.The Historical Evolution of Legal Aid in China from the Perspective of Globalisation (1890-2003).- Chapter 5.For Workers and for the Disadvantaged: Legal Advice Centres in Germany from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century.- Chapter 6."To Poor and Rich Alike": Legal Modernisation, the Women's Movement, and Legal Aid in Late Nineteenth-Century Finland.- Chapter 7.Lawyers Providing Legal Aid in Print: Legal Question and Answer Columns in Finnish Newspapers around 1900.- Chapter 8.The Organisation of l'Assistance judiciaire, The Politics of Poverty, and the Rewriting of History in Nineteenth-Century France.- Chapter 9.Training and Disciplining Lawyers through Legal Aid: Chile, 1932-1960s.- Chapter 10.Archival Confrontations and Rewriting the History of Legal Aid in the United States./... Mehr