From Quality to Access to Justice: Improving the Functioning of European Judicial Systems

The articles researches on policies and measures to improve access to justice and, as a consequence, the quality and functioning of the European judicial systems. By depicting the main policy reform trajectories related to the citizens' access to justice across Europe, the paper deals with the participative experiences in Sweden; the alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in the gender equality and antidiscrimination law, and the ICTs support to access to justice at the European level.