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The Centre for Empirical Legal Studies, in conjunction with the Centre for Ethics and Law and Centre for Access to Justice, is establishing a biennial conference – the UCL International Conference on Access to Justice and Legal Services – to bring together researchers, policy makers and legal services professionals from across the world to share new findings, ideas and innovations in the access to justice sphere.
The global financial crisis, technological advancement, processes of democratisation and market transformation are fuelling rapid change in the funding, availability and delivery of social welfare oriented legal services across the world. In England and Wales, legal services and legal aid are in the midst of a period of unprecedented change, following the Legal Services Act 2007 and Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
The need to reflect on and feed robust evidence into this process of change is paramount, and the UCL International Conference on Access to Justice and Legal Services will provide a forum for this to happen.
The first UCL International Conference on Access to Justice and Legal Services will be held in London in June 2014. Further details will appear here soon.
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