Contents:
Foreword/Michael Kirby.;
Preface/Terence D. Jones.;
Introduction/Ayesha Kadwani Dias and Gita Honwana Welch.;
I. The international context of access to justice:
1. International law and sources of access to justice/Ayesha Kadwani Dias.;
2. The renascent access notions: globalization and access to justice/Upendra Baxi;
II. Access to justice in plural legal systems:
3. Community, justice institutions, and judicialization: lessons from rural Peru/Julio Faundez.;
4. Women and access to justice/Fareda Banda.;
5. Access to justice and women’s human rights in a plural legal framework: a case study of the application of Hudood Laws in Pakistan/Shaheen Sardar Ali.;
III. Access to justice and public interest litigation:
6. The public interest movement in South Africa: Law as a means of promoting social justice/Geoff Budlender.;
7. Social action litigation and access to justice in Nigeria: a critical case study/Shedrack C. Agbakwa and Obiora Chinedu Okafor.;
8. Public interest litigation in Central and Eastern Europe/James A. Goldston.;
IV. Democracy, governance and justice programming:
9. Independence of courts and access to justice in Kenya: a new constitutional vision/Jill Cottrell and Yash Ghai.;
10. Judicial and anti-corruption reform in Africa: between market efficiency and access to justice for the poor/James Thuo Gathi.;
11. Legitimacy, accountability and judicial independence: Towards judicial effectiveness/Mohamed C. Othman.;
12. Focusing on legal empowerment: the UNDP LEAD Project in Indonesia/Stephen Golub.;
V. Regional experiences: developments and obstacles:
13. Expanding access to justice in Africa: experiences and perspectives/Francesca Dagnino.;
14. Delivery of legal aid services in developing countries: In the light of the South African experience/David McQuoid-Mason.;
15. Advancing access to justice in Europe and the Commonwealth of independent states: the experience of UNDP/Allan McChesney.;
16. Access to justice in the Arab region/Noha El-Mikawy and Zena Ali Ahmed.;
17. Access to justice in Latin America: approach and experience/Silvina Ramirez, Leire Otamendi and Alejandro Alvarez.;
18. Avatars of rule of law and access to justice: some Asian aspects/R. Sudarshan. Epilogue;
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