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While law and development discourse has dealt with international poverty, advocates of poverty reduction usually operate within a nation-state context. This book provides a new framework for the future theoretical development of international poverty law. It also explores specific human rights initiatives that address particular aspects of poverty, including human rights conventions, measures to counter the tendency of intellectual property law to undermine food security, the right to food as framed in UN development documents, and the startlingly important development in South Africa of an alternative vision of constitutional law. The contributors position international poverty law as a legitimate field for multidisciplinary research and dialogue, and open up new arenas for international poverty law to contribute to addressing poverty reduction. This book provides a new framework for the future theoretical development of international poverty law. It explores specific human rights initiatives that address particular aspects of poverty, including human rights conventions, the right to food as framed in UN development documents, and the development in South Africa of an alternative vision of constitutional law.

Public welfare --- Legal assistance to the poor. --- Judicare --- Law, Poverty --- Legal representation of the poor --- Poor --- Poverty law --- Pro bono publico legal services --- Legal services --- In forma pauperis --- Public defenders --- Poor laws --- Social legislation --- Law and legislation. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law --- Development studies --- Poverty & unemployment --- International law

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The principle and practice of pro bono, or volunteer legal services for the poor and other marginalized groups, is an increasingly important feature of justice systems around the world. Pro bono initiatives now exist in more than eighty countries - including Colombia, Portugal, Nigeria, and Singapore - and the list keeps growing. Covering the spread of pro bono across five continents, this book provides a unique data set permitting the first-ever comparative analysis of pro bono's growing role in the access to justice movement. The contributors are leading experts from around the world, whose chapters examine both the internal roots of and global influences on pro bono in transnational context. Global Pro Bono explores the dramatically expanding geographical and political reach of pro bono: documenting its essential contribution to bringing more justice to those on the margins, while underscoring its complex and contested meaning in different parts of the world.

Legal assistance to the poor. --- Public interest law. --- Practice of law --- Cause lawyers --- Legal services --- Law, Public interest --- Pro bono publico legal services --- Public interest --- Public welfare --- In forma pauperis --- Public defenders --- Judicare --- Law, Poverty --- Legal representation of the poor --- Poor --- Poverty law --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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Sociology of law --- Lawyers --- -Legal aid --- -Legal assistance to the poor --- -Public interest --- -State, The --- Common good --- Judicare --- Law, Poverty --- Legal representation of the poor --- Poor --- Poverty law --- Pro bono publico legal services --- Legal services --- Public welfare --- In forma pauperis --- Public defenders --- Legal charities --- Legal assistance to the poor --- Advocates --- Attorneys --- Bar --- Barristers --- Jurists --- Legal profession --- Solicitors --- Representation in administrative proceedings --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Legal aid --- Public interest --- -Lawyers --- -Judicare --- Persons --- -Sociology of law

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Criminal justice, Administration of --- -Legal assistance to the poor --- -Plea bargaining --- -Public defenders --- -Defenders, Public --- Public defenders --- Criminal defense lawyers --- Government attorneys --- Legal assistance to the poor --- Defense (Criminal procedure) --- Bargaining, Plea --- Pleas of guilty --- Judicare --- Law, Poverty --- Legal representation of the poor --- Poor --- Poverty law --- Pro bono publico legal services --- Legal services --- Public welfare --- In forma pauperis --- Administration of criminal justice --- Justice, Administration of --- Crime --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- Plea bargaining --- -Criminal justice, Administration of

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This unique study explores how strategies to safeguard the provision of legal advice and access to welfare rights to disadvantaged communities might be developed in ways that strengthen rather than undermine the basic ethics and principles of public service provision.

Justice, Administration of --- People with social disabilities --- Legal assistance to the poor --- Social justice --- Civil rights --- Equality --- Justice --- Judicare --- Law, Poverty --- Legal representation of the poor --- Poor --- Poverty law --- Pro bono publico legal services --- Legal services --- Public welfare --- In forma pauperis --- Public defenders --- Culturally deprived people --- Culturally disadvantaged people --- Disadvantaged people, Culturally --- Disadvantaged people, Socially --- People with cultural disabilities --- Socially disadvantaged people --- Socially handicapped --- Underprivileged people --- People with disabilities --- Marginality, Social --- Legal status, laws, etc.