International Journal of Law and Society

Special Issue

Access to Justice, Law and Development

  • Submission Deadline: 20 May 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Felipe Werner
About This Special Issue
This special issue aims to expand and spread knowledge about access to justice as a right and a necessity for the social and economic development. The idea is to correlate issues that are fundamental to ensure a minimal dignity to human beings of any country. It is known that access to justice is essential to ensure reliability and the development of the Democratic State of Law because it will be the last way able to ensure freedom and the minimum existential minimum requirements. Therefore, the issue proposes to analyze the jurisdictional tutelage as legitimizing essence of the legal system. The goal of this special issue is to encourage debate and explore modernization and increment of these three possibilities proposed: access to justice, law and development. The scientific production expect to achieve with this issue are those that observes and relate access to justice as a protection of Human Rights and development.
Aims and Scope:
  1. Dignity of human beings
  2. Human rights
  3. Access to justice
  4. Social development
  5. Economic development
  6. Legal order
Lead Guest Editor
  • Felipe Werner

    Law School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Guest Editors
  • Natammy Luana Bonissoni

    School of Law, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Balneário Camboriú, Brazil

  • Márcio Ricardo Staffen

    Postgraduate Program Law, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Itajaí, Brazil

  • Andrea Cristina Zanetti

    Law School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  • Heloise Garcia

    Postgraduate Program Law, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Itajaí, Brazil

  • Marcelo Romão Marineli

    Law School, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil

  • Leonard Schmitz

    Law School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  • Danielle Portugal De Biazi

    Law School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  • Elias Medeiros Neto

    School of Law, Universidade de Marília, São Paulo, Brazil

Published Articles
  • Access to Justice: Legal Concept and Characterization

    Bruno Makowiecky Salles , Paulo Márcio Cruz

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2020
    Pages: 106-113
    Received: 05 February 2020
    Accepted: 30 April 2020
    Published: 04 August 2020
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijls.20200303.15
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    Abstract: What should be understood, at the same time, by Access to Justice? The present theme in Brazil has been shown to be relevant and pertinent, considering also the normative approaches and guidelines of our Civil Procedural Code that assimilates principles and guidelines, above all for the efficiency of the Judiciary and the need for a good jurisdicti... Show More
  • A Critical View of the Access to Justice in Brazil

    Felipe Probst Werner

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2020
    Pages: 1-4
    Received: 09 February 2020
    Accepted: 20 February 2020
    Published: 18 March 2020
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijls.20200301.11
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    Abstract: This article makes critical analyze the access to justice. Beside the concept of this great juridical issue, the main approach is the model and consequences of the free legal aid adopted by Brazilian law system. The study points the problems faced by the country caused by a wrong and incomplete way to provide access to justice. Thru the article, is... Show More