Marco Segatti is a postdoc researcher at the University of Genoa. He previously worked at the University of Girona, where he taught courses in legal theory, political philosophy and dispute resolution. He graduated in law from the University of Pavia, and has completed graduate work at Harvard Law School (LLM), University of Bologna (Phd) and The University of Chicago Law School (JSD). Marco has published in English, Italian and Spanish both in peer-reviewed journals as well as chapters in edited volumes.

• 1 Introduction.- Part I. Domain: conceptual, empirical and historical explorations of access to justice.- 2 Is there a (Human) Right of Access to Justice?.- 3 Equal access to justice: Three interpretations.- 4 Duties of assistance and the criminal/civil distinction.- 5 Unmet legal needs: identification and rich descriptions.- Part II Normative foundations.- 6 The need for a theoretical base: four arguments.- 7 Why capabilities? On the duty to, at times and provisionally, pause, cool down, and listen.- 8 The instrumentalities of access to justice in defending democratic cooperation.- Part III. Practical applications. Testing the political principles of equal access to justice.- 9 Free legal counsel and access to justice.- 10 Is group litigation legitimate?.- 11 Still Against Settlement?.- 12 Conclusion.