Intercultural Perspectives for Lawyers and the Law. New Possibilities for Legal Education and Assistance

The essay envisages the new, possible professional perspectives that intercultural law seems to open up to young lawyers. At the crossroads between the necessity to supply legal assistance to foreigners and the current crisis that legal professionals undergo, a legal intercultural competence might provide both a way out of the dire straits currently experienced by the lawyers and the broadening on a global scale of national legal practices. Moreover, the text puts forward some suggestions to conjoin, in a practical key, legal intercultural assistance and IT systems. Such a proposal is designed to increase the rate of dissemination of basic legal education amongst the population and ease access to legal advice and to protection also for the have-nots.