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Access to justice research : On the way to a broader perspective

Storgaard, Asbjørn LU (2023) In Oñati Socio-Legal Series 13(4). p.1209-1238
Abstract
In this paper a baseline of contemporary access to justice research is established. The baseline clearly illustrates key features of the research field suggesting that while the field of research has become more multifaceted in the course of the last two or three decades, it is nevertheless very much dominated by law scholarship and structural analysis of legal service provision. Departing from this overview of access to justice research as of today, five calls for future research on access to justice explicated in the reviewed literature is presented and discussed. I argue that future research on access to justice should: 1) Reach a clearer understanding of the problem (of access to justice), 2)... (More)
In this paper a baseline of contemporary access to justice research is established. The baseline clearly illustrates key features of the research field suggesting that while the field of research has become more multifaceted in the course of the last two or three decades, it is nevertheless very much dominated by law scholarship and structural analysis of legal service provision. Departing from this overview of access to justice research as of today, five calls for future research on access to justice explicated in the reviewed literature is presented and discussed. I argue that future research on access to justice should: 1) Reach a clearer understanding of the problem (of access to justice), 2) consider a multidisciplinary approach, 3) support and develop evidence-based policy by committing to empirical research, 4) study a wider variety of social realities and 5) look for quality. The reasonings of this paper are based on a scoping literature review. (Less)
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Access to justice, literature review, legal aid, democracy, law and society
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Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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13
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4
pages
1209 - 1238
publisher
Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
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  • scopus:85166421644
ISSN
2079-5971
DOI
10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1352
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English
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15cec7d7-e780-4be7-bfdf-5a0648235279
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  publisher    = {{Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law}},
  series       = {{Oñati Socio-Legal Series}},
  title        = {{Access to justice research : On the way to a broader perspective}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1352}},
  doi          = {{10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1352}},
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