Building Bridges between the Legal Professions: The Case of the Italian Observatories of Civil Justice

Where are the legal professions heading? What are they trying to do to overcome the difficulties of the judicial systems and, at the same time, to reaffirm their role in society and improve the citizens’ confidence in the legal system? This article will focus on the Italian case presenting the pheno...

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Main Author: Luca Verzelloni
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Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2015-12-01
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Online Access:https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/sortuz/article/view/691
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title Building Bridges between the Legal Professions: The Case of the Italian Observatories of Civil Justice
title_full Building Bridges between the Legal Professions: The Case of the Italian Observatories of Civil Justice
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