Series Editors’ Preface

Summary

In recent years, there has been increasing global interest in issues of access to justice and how these issues relate to our increasingly unequal societies. The concept of ‘access to justice’ – the protection of the law that enables citizens to enforce their rights – is far from new, but has often been approached from a range of different perspectives, methodologies and disciplines. This series provides a home for socio-legal scholarship which explores issues of access to justice. It will draw important connections between research undertaken across different sub-disciplines which intrinsically involve issues of access to justice but are not routinely in conversation with one another, such as civil and criminal law, family law, housing law, immigration law and social welfare law. The series will forge a coherent field of access to justice scholarship; incorporating a diverse range of perspectives to facilitate a multifaceted critique of the key issues, debates and challenges that underpin access to justice, and shape the future directions of this emerging field.