Global Reflections on Positionality in Rural Access to Justice Research - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 150997282X ISBN 13: 9781509972821

Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK), 2025

Synopsis

This book offers a unique look at rural access to justice through a series of personal and professional reflections by leading scholars in the field.

Engaging a position sensibility", it explores how our identities, class backgrounds, and professional privileges shape research and writing in rural places—and how those rural places in turn shape us.

This is an important collection, for while rural justice gaps are well-documented, considerably less has been written about the distinct opportunities that rural communities present for collaborative research, innovation, and policy development. The book offers us an honest, reflexive accounting of what has been done, why, and what’s next to dismantle academic barriers and promote meaningful work on rural access to justice.

As a call to still deeper engagement with rurality, this book will inspire readers to consider rural place in their studies of law—and to consider their own place in scholarship on access to justice."

About this title

About the Authors

Michele Statz is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and Affiliated Faculty with the University of Minnesota Law School, USA.

Daniel Newman is Professor at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK)
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 150997282X
• ISBN 13: 9781509972821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Daniel Newman, Michele Statz