Foundations of Civil Justice - Toward a Value-Based Framework for Reform

This book reviews the knowledge corpus about access to civil justice across disciplines and legal traditions and proposes a new research framework for civil justice reform. This framework is intended to foster further critical analysis of the justice system in a systematic and organized way. In particular, the framework underlines the tensions between different values considered as central to the civil justice system, and in doing so potentially allows for conscious, reflected and enlightened choices about the values that are to be prioritized in the reform of justice systems.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Judicial Architecture and Rituals.- Chapter 2: The Need to Reform Civil Justice.- Chapter 3: Converging Adversarial and Inquisitorial Traditions.- Chapter 4: The Challenges of Participatory Justice for Public Adjudication.- Chapter 5: A New Research Framework.

Summary

This book reviews the knowledge corpus about access to civil justice across disciplines and legal traditions and proposes a new research framework for civil justice reform. This framework is intended to foster further critical analysis of the justice system in a systematic and organized way. In particular, the framework underlines the tensions between different values considered as central to the civil justice system, and in doing so potentially allows for conscious, reflected and enlightened choices about the values that are to be prioritized in the reform of justice systems.

Product details

• Authors: Siena Anstis, Karine Bates, Karine et a Bates, Clémen Camion, Clément Camion, Fabie Gélinas, Fabien Gélinas, Emily Grant, Mariko Khan, Catherine Piché
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783319187747
• ISBN: 978-3-31-918774-7
• No. of pages: 145
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 13 mm x 242 mm
• Weight: 389 g
• Illustrations: XII, 145 p. 12 illus., 8 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Anthropologie, Psychologie, B, Law, Political Science, Anthropology, Psychology, Private International Law, Law and Criminology, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Conflict of Laws, Criminal or forensic psychology, comparative law, Law—Philosophy, Methods, theory & philosophy of law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Law and Psychology, Philosophy of Law