{"id":2609,"date":"2017-06-26T22:45:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T02:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistajuridica.uprrp.edu\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2017-06-26T22:45:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T02:45:40","slug":"access-to-justice-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/2017\/06\/26\/access-to-justice-in-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Access to Justice in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The authors examine the root of the access to justice problem in Puerto Rico and how this access has diminished even more so due to the financial crisis. They then explore the different organizations which provide legal aid in Puerto Rico and finally they propose several strategies to improve the access to justice on the Island. These strategies include, amongst others, to improve the\u00a0<em>pro bono<\/em>\u00a0culture in the island\u2019s law firms and in the different law schools, increase the assistance provided to\u00a0<em>pro se<\/em>\u00a0litigants and facilitate access to justice through technology. The authors conclude that the first step towards achieving a more equitable access to justice requires the education of both the public and the lawyered class about how to tackle these issues within the coming years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Los autores examinan la ra\u00edz del problema de acceso a la justicia en Puerto Rico y c\u00f3mo este acceso ha disminuido a\u00fan m\u00e1s con la crisis fiscal. Luego pasan a explorar las diferentes organizaciones que proveen asistencia legal en Puerto Rico y finalmente proponen estrategias sobre c\u00f3mo mejorar el acceso a la justicia en la Isla. Estas estrategias incluyen, entre otras, mejorar la cultura\u00a0<em>pro bono<\/em>\u00a0en los bufetes de abogados y en las diferentes escuelas de Derecho, aumentar la asistencia que se le da a los litigantes\u00a0<em>pro se<\/em>\u00a0y facilitar el acceso a la justicia a trav\u00e9s de la tecnolog\u00eda. Los autores concluyen que el primer paso hacia un acceso m\u00e1s equitativo requiere educar tanto al p\u00fablico como a la clase togada sobre la urgencia con que se deben atender los temas de acceso a la justicia en los pr\u00f3ximos a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cita:<\/strong> Deborah L. Rhode &amp; Pablo J. Hern\u00e1ndez Rivera,\u00a0Access to Justice in Puerto Rico, 86 Rev. Jur. UPR 818 (2017).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revistajuridica.uprrp.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/03.-Acces-to-Justice-in-Puerto-Rico_Rhode-Hernandez-86REVJURUPR818.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enlace PDF (+)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah L. Rhode &amp; Pablo J. Hern\u00e1ndez, 86 Rev. Jur. UPR 818 (2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rev86-num3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derecho.uprrp.edu\/revistajuridica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}