Histories of Legal Aid: A Comparative and International Perspective

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030802736
• ISBN13: 9783030802738
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"