ACCESS TO JUSTICE

Legal concept and characterization

Abstract

What should be understood, contemporaneously, by Access to Justice? This paper addresses the challenge of answering this question by describing the main elements that portray the stage of development of the theme in Legal Science. With no pretension to exhaust the subject, considering its scope and complexity, we seek to situate Access to Justice in the contemporary scene and present the approaches commonly attributed to it, providing the methodological and terminological clarifications necessary for a proper understanding. In this context, considerations are made about perspectives classified as legal-procedural and democratic-institutional, as well as the conceptions, included in the universe of Access to Justice (lato sensu), Access to the Judiciary and Access to Rights.