Daedalus Online Issue on Access to Justice
The most recent issue of Dædalus, the Journal of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is both free and online, and addresses a range of issues related to access to justice in the United States.
According to the journal, “Access to Justice … is a multidisciplinary examination of this crisis, from the challenges of providing quality legal assistance to more people, to the social and economic costs of an often unresponsive legal system, to the opportunities for improvement offered by new technologies, professional innovations, and fresh ways of thinking about the crisis.” Readers of this blog may be especially interested in Sameer Ashar and Annie Lai’s essay, Access to Power, which describes their experiences directing the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at UC Irvine.
The entire list of essays is below:
Introduction
John G. Levi (Legal Services Corporation; Sidley Austin; Academy Member) & David M. Rubenstein (The Carlyle Group; Academy Member)
How Rising Income Inequality Threatens Access to the Legal System
Robert H. Frank (Cornell University)
The Invisible Justice Problem
Lincoln Caplan (journalist and author; Yale Law School)
Reclaiming the Role of Lawyers as Community Connectors
David F. Levi (Duke University School of Law; Academy Member), Dana Remus (legal scholar) & Abigail Frisch (Duke Law Journal)
More Markets, More Justice
Gillian K. Hadfield (University of Toronto; University of California, Berkeley; OpenAI)
Access to What?
Rebecca L. Sandefur (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; American Bar Foundation; MacArthur Fellow)
The Right to Civil Counsel
Tonya L. Brito (University of Wisconsin Law School)
The New Legal Empiricism & Its Application to Access-to-Justice Inquiries
- James Greiner (Harvard Law School)
The Public’s Unmet Need for Legal Services & What Law Schools Can Do about It
Andrew M. Perlman (Suffolk University Law School)
Access to Power
Sameer Ashar (UCLA School of Law) & Annie Lai (University of California, Irvine School of Law)
The Center on Children and Families
Shani M. King (University of Florida Levin College of Law)
Techno-Optimism & Access to the Legal System
Tanina Rostain (Georgetown University Law Center)
Marketing Legal Assistance
Elizabeth Chambliss (University of South Carolina School of Law)
Community Law Practice
Luz E. Herrera (Texas A&M University School of Law)
The Role of the Legal Services Corporation in Improving Access to Justice
James J. Sandman (Legal Services Corporation)
Participatory Design for Innovation in Access to Justice
Margaret Hagan (Stanford Law School)
Simplified Courts Can’t Solve Inequality
Colleen F. Shanahan (Columbia Law School) & Anna E. Carpenter (The University of Tulsa College of Law)
Corporate Support for Legal Services
Jo-Ann Wallace (National Legal Aid and Defender Association)
Justice & the Capability to Function in Society
Pascoe Pleasence (University College London) & Nigel J. Balmer (University College London)
Why Big Business Should Support Legal Aid
Kenneth C. Frazier (Merck & Co.; Academy Member)
Executive Branch Support for Civil Legal Aid
Karen A. Lash (American University)
Why Judges Support Civil Legal Aid
Fern A. Fisher (Maurice A. Deanne School of Law at Hofstra University)
Lawyers, the Legal Profession & Access to Justice in the United States: A Brief History
Robert W. Gordon (Stanford Law School; Yale Law School)
The Twilight Zone
Nathan L. Hecht (Supreme Court of Texas)
-JKoh