Global Pro Bono
Causes, Context, and Contestation

This book provides the first-ever analysis of the growing yet contested role of pro bono services in access to justice globally.

Scott L. Cummings (Edited by), Fabio de Sa e Silva (Edited by), Louise G. Trubek (Edited by)

9781108476157, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 April 2022

350 pages, 4 b/w illus. 15 tables
23.5 x 15.1 x 4 cm, 1.2 kg

'Anyone interested in Socio-Legal studies at large should find in this book a certain degree of satisfaction, for it covers familiar topics such as legal services provisions, law and globalisation, or lawyers' ethics.' Pierre-Louis Sanchez, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

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.

What is global about pro bono and what is global pro bono about? Scott L. Cummings, Fabio de Sa e Silva & Louise G. Trubek
Part I. The Americas: 2.Rationalizing pro bono: corporate social responsibility and the reinvention of legal professionalism in elite American law firms John Bliss , Steven A. Boutcher
3.Pro bono legal work in Canada Robert Granfield , Fiona Kay
4. Two tales of one Brazilian city: individual pro bono cases in são paulo corporate law firms Fabio de Sa e Silva
5. The mandarins of law: pro bono legal work in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia Daniel Bonilla Maldonado
Part II. Europe: 6. Le Pro Bono: The development of pro bono practice in Europe Edwin Rekosh, Lamin Khadar
7. An explosion of legal philanthropy? The transformation of pro bono legal services in England and Wales Andrew Boon, Avis Whyte
8. No attorneys without generosity: why do lawyers practice pro bono? A French perspective Louis Assier-Andrieu & Jeremy Perleman
9.Narrowing the justice gap: clearinghouses for Spain Leire Larracoechea San Sebastián, Michelle Ha, S. Todd Crider
10. Pro bono in Portugal Susana Santos
11. Lawyers' pro bono work in Denmark Annette Olesen, Ole Hammerslev
Part III. Australia: 12. The tripartite effect of pro bono: contemplating the Australian experience Fiona McLeay, Lucy Adams
Part 1V. Africa: 13. Pro bono in South Africa Thabang Pooe, Alice Brown, Jonathan Klaaren
14. The evolution of pro bono legal services in Nigeria Jayanth K. Krishnan, Kunle Ajagbe
Part V. Asia: 15. The evolving contours of private pro bono practice in India: local and global contexts Arpita Gupta
16. Pro bono in Singapore Helena Whalen-Bridge, Robert Granfield
17. The rise of private public interest lawyers in China Jin Dong, Qian Cheng

Subject Areas: International organisations & institutions [LBBU], Legal ethics & professional conduct [LATC], Law & society [LAQ]