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The Ethical Bar And The Lsc: Wrestling With Restrictions On Federally Funded Legal Services, Liza Q. Wirtz
The Ethical Bar And The Lsc: Wrestling With Restrictions On Federally Funded Legal Services, Liza Q. Wirtz
Vanderbilt Law Review
In 1996, Congress passed a budget act containing the most restrictive set of legislative limitations on the Legal Services Corporation ("LSC")-the private, nonprofit organization responsible for administrating federal funding for and facilitating access to legal services for low-income people across the nation-in the tumultuous history of that entity. Designed to forestall advocacy and representation activities viewed as undesirable by those in political power, these restrictions mandated that those organizations to which the LSC awarded funds refrain from engaging in any of a wide variety of previously permissible actions (for example, assisting incarcerated persons in civil proceedings and encouraging other people …
Services As Objects Of International Trade: Bartering The Legal Profession, Louise L. Hill
Services As Objects Of International Trade: Bartering The Legal Profession, Louise L. Hill
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The General Agreement on Trade in Service calls for members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to further liberalize and expand opportunities for international trade in services. With legal services included in this mandate, requests for specific commitments and offers have been made by WTO Member States. While services as components of international trade is new to many of the WTO Member States, free movement of services has been addressed by the European Union (EU) since the inception of the European Economic Community. Thus EU directives, declarations, codes and case law serve as valuable resources to WTO Member States as …