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The Pioneer, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 2008, Illinois State University, College Of Education

The Pioneer (alumni newsletter)

Alumni Newsletter for University High School, College of Education

Expanding The Use Of Collaborative Law: Consideration Of Its Use In A Legal Aid Program For Resolving Family Law Disputes, Lawrence P. Mclellan

Journal of Dispute Resolution

From Perry Mason and Law & Order to Judge Judy, many American consumers believe that legal conflict is resolved by trial--exciting, antagonistic, adversarial fights between lawyers. Yet common experience and research demonstrate that most legal conflict is not resolved between gladiators in the courtroom.' Many consumers come to the legal process with this Hollywood portrayal as their only knowledge of the process. Those engaged in the legal process know that there are alternatives to the courtroom for resolving dispute. Finding alternatives to litigation is especially important for legal aid programs, as the increased time and expense of litigation reduces the …

Transnational Legal Practice 2006-2007, Laurel S. Terry, Carol Silver, Ellyn Rosen, Carol A. Needham, Robert E. Lutz, Peter D. Ehrenhaft

All Faculty Scholarship

Law practice continues to expand across borders, and lawyers and law firms from the United States and other countries are substantially invested in representations that take them outside of their home jurisdictions.[1] Unfortunately, reliable information relating to the extent of internationalization of the legal market is scarce. Neither the number of lawyers and law firms working in the international legal services market nor the receipts generated from internationally-related work are readily and reliably available. Nevertheless, statistics from both the United States and United Kingdom provide a sense of the numbers from the largest present sources of international legal practice.

In …

Parenting From Prison: Family Relationships Of Incarcerated Women In Massachusetts, Erika Kates, Sylvia Mignon, Paige Ransford

Publications from the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy

Historically in the United States, there has been little concern about the needs of incarcerated women and their family members, especially children. This began to change with the tremendous increase in the number of incarcerated women. The rate of women’s incarceration increased dramatically during the 1980s and today the number of female inmates continues to rise faster than the number of male inmates. In 1986, 19,812 women were incarcerated in the United States and this number rose in 1991 to 38,796. Today, over 112,000 women are incarcerated in state or federal facilities (Sabol et al., 2007; Snell 1994). While in …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Election Investigation Results Released
• News
• Opinions
• Features
• Classifieds
• Sports

From The Editors, Mark Tushnet, Carrie Menkel Meadow

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Wartsila Nsd Na Inc V. Hill Intl Inc

2008 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Housing Offers Discounts to Students at Univ. Villas
• Briefs
• Opinions
• Thru Our Lens
• Features
• Sports

Gardiner V. Boundary County Bd. Of Com'rs Clerk's Record V. 2 Dckt. 35007

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Usa V. Hoffecker

2008 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.

Governors State University Board Of Trustees Budget And Finance Committee Meeting Minutes - June 13, 2008, Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees Meetings Materials and Recordings

Agenda and Minutes for the Governors State University Board of Trustees Budget and Finance Committee Meeting - June 13, 2008

Governors State University Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes- June 13, 2008, Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees Meetings Materials and Recordings

Agenda for the Governors State University Board of Trustees Meeting with Committees, and Minutes for the Governors State University Board of Trustees Meeting - June 13, 2008

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• FDA Warning Prompts Chick-fil-A to Remove Sliced Tomatoes
• Briefs
• News
• Features
• Thru Our Lens
• Classifieds
• Sports

2008.06.12 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees - 2008

Meeting materials for the NEIU Board of Trustees

2008.06.12 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees - 2008

Meeting materials for the NEIU Board of Trustees

The Montclarion, June 12, 2008, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

The Bg News June 11, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. June 11, 2008. Volume 98-Issue 155.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• PRESIDENT OBAMA?
• Briefs
• News
• Opinions
• Features
• Classifieds
• Sports

The Murray Ledger And Times, June 4, 2008, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Access To Justice: Report On Selected Reform Initiatives In Canada, Canadian Judicial Council

Canadian Forum on Civil Justice

When the Sub-committee on Access to Justice (Trial Courts) first met we confirmed that we are concerned with access to justice, and in particular with mounting costs in the justice system. While Subcommittee members are aware of important initiatives designed to respond to the issue of costs at the trial level, it was felt that it would be helpful to know more about what is happening across the country so that we can identify promising practices to reduce costs. To that end we agreed that the starting point for the work of the Subcommittee is to develop a focused inventory …

Prescribed Reading: June 2008, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• New clinic and site planned for St. Joseph
• Kudos to…
• Congratulations to . . .
• Condolences to:
• Welcome to these new employees
• Recognition for Years of Service
• Dorsher receives 2008 Caduceus Award
• Cardiac surgery program receives top rating
• Attorney joins health system
• Pre-diabetes classes offered
• Employee Campaign raises $362,268!
• Calling all bike riders!
• Stroke & Blood Vessel Screenings
• Sharing the gift of life

Lawyers As Quasi-Public Actors, W. Bradley Wendel

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This paper was written for a panel on access to justice at the 100th anniversary conference of the Law Society of Alberta, Canada. In it I argue that the debate over access to justice, which in the United States generally means pro bono representation provided by individual lawyers, cannot be divorced from broader theoretical debates about the lawyer's role. My claim is that lawyers are quasi-public actors, in the sense that they have some responsibility to aim directly at justice in their representation of clients, and cannot rely only on indirect strategies to ensure that justice is served. The argument …

Unh Law Alumni Magazine, Summer 2008, University Of New Hampshire School Of Law

UNH Law Alumni Magazine

No abstract provided.

Judges, Lawyers, And A Predictive Theory Of Legal Complexity, Benjamin H. Barton

Scholarly Works

This Article uses public choice theory and the new institutionalism to discuss the incentives, proclivities, and shared backgrounds of lawyers and judges. In America every law-making judge has a single unifying characteristic, each is a former lawyer. This shared background has powerful and unexplored effects on the shape and structure of American law. This Article argues that the shared characteristics, thought-processes, training, and incentives of Judges and lawyers lead inexorably to greater complexity in judge-made law. These same factors lead to the following prediction: judge-created law will be most complex in areas where a) elite lawyers regularly practice; b) judges …

The Civil Justice System And The Public Justice For Nunavummiut: Partnerships For Solutions, Travis Anderson, Mary Stratton

Canadian Forum on Civil Justice

As part of the Civil Justice System and the Public (CJSP), a national collaborative research project, we first visited Iqaluit in June 2003. At that time the Research Coordinator met with key contacts in the Nunavut justice and social service community to talk about the research and make plans for conducting the field research. As a result of these initial meetings, the CJSP team made contact with Inuit services in Ottawa. In July 2003, during the Ontario phase of the CJSP research, we met Inuit service providers and several Nunavummiut who were at that time living in Ottawa.1 In September …

Reaching Out With Research: Engaging Community In Mapping Legal Service Accessibility, Effectiveness And Unmet Needs, Mary Stratton

Canadian Forum on Civil Justice

Emerging international research demonstrates that high economic and social costs accrue when individuals cannot access timely and effective resolutions to legal problems. Canadian research also shows that most people lack knowledge and understanding of legal rights, legal processes and services, and experience significant barriers when attempting to seek legal information and assistance. Within the Canadian justice community there is strong interest in engaging all relevant stakeholders in collaborative processes of research and policy development. This paper discusses how community-based mapping research can facilitate such engagement in compiling evidence that informs the development of legal processes and services that are more …

Contact Point, Arthur A. Dugoni School Of Dentistry

Contact Point

No abstract provided.

The Colonia And The Landfill: Colonias Development Council V. Rhino Environmental Services, Inc., Kristina Fisher

Student Thesis Honors (1996-2008)

On July 18, 2005, the New Mexico Supreme Court handed down a groundbreaking decision in Colonias Development Council v. Rhino Environmental Services, Inc., requiring the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) to take environmental justice criteria into consideration during solid waste facility permitting decisions. When the New Mexico Supreme Court overruled the agency and required it to consider the social impact and regional proliferation of waste sites in its Solid Waste Act permitting decisions, it signaled a substantial shift in the interpretation of New Mexico environmental law. In the aftermath of Rhino, the agency revised its Solid Waste Act regulations to …

Access To Justice For The Poor: The Singapore Judiciary At Work, Gary Chan Kok Yew

Washington International Law Journal

This Article examines the concrete efforts and programs of the Singapore judiciary to maintain and enhance access to justice for the poor. This examination is undertaken via overlapping economic, procedural, and institutional approaches. The Article will examine three main contentions. First, that the Singapore judiciary’s concrete efforts in maintaining and promoting access to justice for the poor have been fairly comprehensive and pro-active. Second, that abstract constitutional discourse on the right of access to justice and the associated rights of legal representation and legal aid are virtually absent in Singapore. Thus, the judicial practice for enhancing access to justice for …