International Studies in Procedural Law1- Access to Justice for Small Businesses

This rigorous, pioneering volume combines original empirical data with sharp critical engagement with recent scholarship in access-to-justice research, comparative procedural law, and small business policy. It puts small businesses — long "invisible stakeholders" — at the centre of access-to-justice debates. The contributors analyse structural implications and power asymmetries in B2B disputes, spotlighting indirect and intangible costs and introducing "legal capability" and "legal confidence" as powerful analytical lenses. Built on thorough primary-source research (including the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence, Representative Actions, and Consumer ADR recast Directives), national procedural law from the Nordic countries, Belgium, England and Wales, Germany, and the Netherlands, as well as CJEU and ECHR case law, this book is essential for proceduralists, policymakers, and anyone concerned with law, power, and economic participation in Europe.