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Book Review - A Guide To Legal Research In Virginia (Edited By John D. Eure), Steven D. Hinckley
Book Review - A Guide To Legal Research In Virginia (Edited By John D. Eure), Steven D. Hinckley
Steven D. Hinckley
Review of A Guide to Legal Research in Virginia, edited by John D. Eure. Charlottesville, VA: Committee on Continuing Legal Education, Virginia Law Foundation, 1989.
Bounds And Beyond: A Need To Reevaluate The Right Of Prison Access To The Courts, Steven D. Hinckley
Bounds And Beyond: A Need To Reevaluate The Right Of Prison Access To The Courts, Steven D. Hinckley
Steven D. Hinckley
The author argues that the 1977 United States Supreme Court decision in Bounds v. Smith insufficiently protects the right of prisoners to represent themselves before the courts by failing to require state and federal correctional facilities to establish and maintain adequately stocked prison law libraries and to provide prisoners with the option to use those libraries as their means of gaining meaningful access to the courts.