PLS 322 Exam 1: Lawyers and Access to Justice

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models of legal education

2 models

  • postgraduate legal studies after undergrad degree(US)

  • undergrade degree + apprentice ship (more common)

shaped by colonization and geography- adapted to fit political, social, and economic environments



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UK legal education

3 year bachelor of law degree followed by one year course determined by type of lawyer , solicitor, barrister- very rigid

  • increases accessibility, cheaper, easier to get a law degree (incentive)

  • practical implications- grad degree is extra barrier


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practical implications

  • undergrad degree= more lawyers

    • more lawyers= more to go to to get representation

    • lawyers growing more essential

  • postgrad degree = extra barriers


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obstacles to legal access

  • lack of resources

    • too little lawyers for too big population

  • physical location barriers

  • absence of knowledge in legal literacy

  • finances

  • predisposed perceptions of fear and mistrust (corrupted system)

  • inability to obtain a lawyer who can translate legal terminology and navigate system


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legal profession issues

  • lawyers highly concentrated in western countries

  • highly concentrated in urban areas

  • typically very expensive

  • abcense of lawyers or inability to pay for them


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legal mobilization

process requiring sustained litigation and resources typically beyond the reach of a single litigant to try to change the law

  • offers. non violent potentially sustainable avenue to achieve social change- since legal literacy is absent in most of the world

  • '“rights discourse” can become useful in countries where legal mobilization is blocked

  • provides option for when citizens are not heard by other government institutions


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when can legal mobilization achieve policy change - EPPS

in additional to constitutional guarantees, and judicial independence and receptiveness- resources for sustained litigation

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URRIBARRI: when can legal mobilization achieve policy change

  • counter to Epps

ran a study and found that judicial ideology and institutions determined success of rights litigation- NOT mobilization

  • institutions in different contexts produce different results


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one-shooters

litigants involved in a single case- regular people

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repeat players

regular participants in judicial proceedings- have experience, expertise and a longterm strategy- think corporations and regulation agencies