Papers
Please find here the papers for each session. They are linked in the appropriate session. If a paper is missing a link, it has not yet been received by the conference organizers.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Session 1: Germany - Access to Justice (Host Nation Session)
- Matthias Kilian: The odd one out? Germany’s approach to access to justice
- Celine Frey: Exploring the causes of the declining number of court cases
- Thomas Lämmrich: Legal expenses insurance and its key role in access to justice in Germany
Session 2: Managing Resources for Access to Justice
- Diogo Esteves, Cleber Alves, Nicholas Moura e Silva and Leandro Antônio Jiomeke - Affording Legal Aid in Brazil: comparison of costs between salaried staff model and judicare system currently coexisting in the country
- Hadeel Abdel Aziz - Learning for Change: Developing Innovative Solutions to Bridge Gaps and Reduce Demand for Legal Aid
- Jon T. Johnsen - Governmental means for limiting judicare costs
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Session 3: The importance of representation for Access to Justice
- Ab Currie, Trevor Farrow and Lisa Moore - Representation Pathways: Efficiency for the Courts and Better Outcomes - For the Accused in the Ontario Court of Justice
- Juliet-Nil Uraz - The Impacts of Reduced Access to Legal Assistance: Evidence from England and Wales
- Sunil Chauhan - Grassroots Legal Aid in India: Challenges and Lessons
Session 4: Client-Centred Solutions
- Dara Read and Daniel Kennard - The case for independent child-centred socio-legal services for children and young people in alternative care
- Jin Ho Verdonschot, Susanne Peters, Janne Verhoofstad, Julia van den Brink and Conner Hartwig - Feedback loops for the legal aid system: Structural, longitudinal monitoring of experiences
Session 5: Thinking strategically about Access to Justice
- Hazel Genn - Let’s not talk about Access to Justice: Unravelling the concept to create meaning in the non-legal world
- Madhurima Dhanuka - Strengthening Access to Justice through Legal Aid: The India Experience
- Matthew Burnett and Rebecca L. Sandefur - Justice Work as Democracy Work: Reimagining Access to Justice as Democratization
- Rebecca L. Sandefur & Matthew Burnett - Justice Futures: Access to Justice and the Future of Justice Work
Session 6: Where legal aid lawyers will come from in the future?
- Ciara Daly and Carey Pearson - Local Solutions to a Global Problem: Care & Protection Professional Development Initiative
- John Boersig - Australia-wide Private Practitioner Census
- Tomoki Ikenaga - Beginning or Proceeding of the Lack of Civil Legal Aid Providers in Japan - Statistical Growth but Substantial Decline -
Friday, June 27, 2025
Session 7A: Overcoming Access to Justice Challenges
Session 7B: Renvisioning a People-Centred Access to Justice Research Agenda
Session 8: Legal Aid and Mass Harm
- André Luís Machado de Castro and Cleber Francisco Alves - Access to Justice for All: Legal Aid for Vulnerable Groups in Rio de Janeiro
- Lianne Otten, Edwin Borghs, Maarten Nieuwenburg and Wilco van den Dool - Special legal aid arrangements after extensive government failure
Session 9: AI - Solution or Problem?
- Rhaea Bailey and Kendra Perrin - Transforming Justice: A Human-Centred Approach to Digital Transformation in Legal Aid (not being presented)