Access to Justice and Gender Violence

Abstract

Access to justice is one of the central axes of critical law theories and anti-formalist movements  and it has been debated  within  feminist  legal projects.  In recent  years it has been classif ied as a human right and it has been explicitly recognized in some international laws. Access  to justice  has not been  named  in the Spanish  legal  language,  but many  of its standards  include  several  elements  that compose  it. The Organic  Law 1/2004  of 28th December,  of integral protection  measures  against gender-based  violence  is one of them. We are interested in expose whether this reflects broader conceptions  of access to justice, particularly those established by the most transformative  feminist legal projects and there- fore, whether it is a useful tool to overcome  the formalistic  and androcentric  logic which has traditionally  characterized  Law and Justice Systems.