Asking the right question can be as important as giving the right answer. In her book Judging Civil Justice, Dame Hazel Genn forcefully argues that the right question about the civil justice system is not “how much justice we can afford” but “how much justice can we afford to forego.”...

The criminal justice systems in Latin America have experienced profound transformations since the 1980s. But what has been the impact of criminal justice reforms in terms of access to justice and human rights adjudication? Although there are studies looking into the advances and failures of...

This encyclopedia entry offers an overview of access to justice in the field of human rights. While the concept of access to justice is difficult to grasp, the entry identifies two primary ways in which it intersects with human rights: On the one hand, access to justice relates to the...

“Being a good judge in this environment means unlearning what you learned in law school about what a judge is supposed to do. Fairness is doing things a federal judge would never do.”Active judging, where judges step away from the traditional, passive role to assist those without counsel, is...

This Article, which was presented at the 2013 Miller-Becker Center Symposium at the University of Akron School of Law, describes three novel ways in which consumers are gaining greater access to the justice system without using lawyers and argues that the legal community should embrace this kind...