Workshop: Causes, Consequences, and Contestation in Pro Bono Lawyering

研讨会：公益律师中的原因、后果和争议

• 批准号: 1748379
• 负责人: Scott Cummings
• 金额: $ 1.09万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1748379&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Causes; Consequences; Contestation; Pro

The principle and practice of pro bono -- volunteer legal services for poor and other marginalized groups -- is an increasingly important feature of civil legal aid systems. A quarter century ago, pro bono was an ancillary feature of legal services. Now, in contrast, it has become widely diffused and institutionally central in a growing number of justice systems. Yet as pro bono spreads, promoted by powerful sponsors and mobilized by local lawyers, law firms, and the organized bar, it develops in diverse ways that reveal different approaches and unique understandings of the role that volunteer services should play in system design. What does the rise of pro bono mean for the pursuit of access to justice?Empirical research is essential to better understanding how pro bono operates in different contexts. Toward that end, this travel grant will bring together leading and emerging law and social science scholars to explore how pro bono has been shaped by cross-cutting factors: the relative independence of the local legal profession, the structure of government, the development of large law firms and the power of corporate clients, potential competition with the plaintiffs' bar, the interaction between market-based and state-based systems for providing legal services to the poor, the influence of major private funders, the role of legal education, and the local nature of the legal need.

公益性原则和做法-为穷人和其他边缘化群体提供志愿法律的服务-是民事法律的援助制度日益重要的一个特点。四分之一世纪前，无偿服务是法律的服务的一个附属特征。与此相反，现在，它已在越来越多的司法系统中得到广泛传播并成为制度核心。然而，随着公益活动的传播，在强大的赞助商的推动下，在当地律师、律师事务所和有组织的律师协会的动员下，它以不同的方式发展，揭示了不同的方法和对志愿服务在系统设计中应发挥的作用的独特理解。公益服务的兴起对追求正义意味着什么？实证研究对于更好地理解公益服务在不同情况下如何运作至关重要。为此，这笔旅行补助金将汇集领先和新兴的法律和社会科学学者，探讨无偿服务如何受到跨领域因素的影响：当地法律的职业的相对独立性、政府的结构、大型律师事务所的发展和公司客户的权力、与原告律师协会的潜在竞争，向穷人提供法律的服务的市场和国家制度之间的相互作用、主要私人出资者的影响、法律的教育的作用以及法律的需要的地方性质。