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Preface: Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence And Contemporary American Legal Education, Tai-Heng Cheng

Articles & Chapters

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Cartels By Another Name: Should Licensed Occupations Face Antitrust Scrutiny?, Rebecca Haw Allensworth

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

It has been over a hundred years since George Bernard Shaw wrote that “[a]ll professions are a conspiracy against the laity.” Since then, the number of occupations and the percentage of workers subject to occupational licensing have exploded; nearly one-third of the U.S. workforce is now licensed, up from five percent in the 1950s. Through occupational licensing boards, states endow cosmetologists, veterinary doctors, medical doctors, and florists with the authority to decide who may practice their art. It cannot surprise when licensing boards comprised of competitors regulate in ways designed to raise their profits. The result for consumers is higher …

Corrections For Racial Disparities In Law Enforcement, Christopher L. Griffin Jr., Frank A. Sloan, Lindsey M. Eldred

William & Mary Law Review

Much empirical analysis has documented racial disparities at the beginning and end stages of criminal cases. However, our understanding about the perpetuation of—and even corrections for—differential outcomes in the process remains less than complete. This Article provides a comprehensive examination of criminal dispositions using all DWI cases in North Carolina from 2001 to 2011, focusing on several major decision points in the process. Starting with pretrial hearings and culminating in sentencing results, we track differences in outcomes by race and gender. Before sentencing, significant gaps emerge in the severity of pretrial release conditions that disadvantage black and Hispanic defendants. Yet …

From "War On Poverty" To Pro Bono: Access To Justice Remains Elusive For Too Many, Including Our Veterans, Patricia E. Roberts

Faculty Publications

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty. The Legal Services Program of 1965, along with the Legal Services Corporation formed in 1974, considerably increased civil legal aid to America’s poor. Yet today, there is only one legal aid attorney for every 6,415 people living in poverty. Veterans, comprising 4.6%of those living in poverty, often suffer additional obstacles and extensive legal needs, including assistance in obtaining benefits to which they are entitled. While encouraging additional pro bono service among attorneys incrementally increases the availability of legal services to the poor, law school clinics across the country …

Letting Go Of Old Ideas, William D. Henderson

Michigan Law Review

Two recently published books make the claim that the legal profession has changed (Steven Harper’s The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis) or is changing (Richard Susskind’s Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future). The books are interesting because they discuss the types of changes that are broad, sweeping, and dramatic. In suitable lawyer fashion, both books are unfailingly analytical. They both also argue that the old order is collapsing. The Lawyer Bubble is backward looking and laments the legacy we have squandered, while Tomorrow’s Lawyers is future oriented and offers fairly specific prescriptive advice, particularly to those lawyers entering …

Teeth In The Tiger: Organizational Standing As A Critical Component Of Fair Housing Act Enforcement, Melissa Rothstein, Megan K. Whyte De Vasquez

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

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By The Numbers: Depaul's Business Alumni Network

Business Exchange

Infographic highlights where Driehaus College of Business alumni, live and work, and the top fields of work and companies that employ DePaul alumni.

Perspectives, Spring 2014, Western New England University School Of Law

Perspectives Alumni Magazine

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Education & Practice (Newsletter Of The Section On Education Of Lawyer, Virginia State Bar) - V. 22, No. 2 (Spring 2014), Dale Margolin Cecka

Law Faculty Publications

Contents

The Richmond Legal Development Center: Virginia’s First Legal Incubator, by Eppa Hunton VI, the Managing Director of the Richmond Legal Development Center

From Crisis to Innovation, by Jeffrey Brauch, the Dean of Regent University School of Law

Chair’s Column, by Professor A. Benjamin Spencer of Washington and Lee School of Law

Section’s Website Update

Virginia Supreme Court Senior Justice Elizabeth B. Lacy Receives Leadership in Education Award

Law Faculty News

News and Events Around the Commonwealth

2013-2014 Board of Governors

An Evaluation Model For Non-Governmental Organizations Engaged In Advocacy, Nathalie Des Rosiers

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The article proposes a model to evaluate the effectiveness of NGOs that engage in advocacy for compliance with international human rights and civil liberties standards or constitutional rules. The model draws on the analysis of social movement effectiveness, ombudsmen’s roles and the literature on the evaluation of human rights NGOs at the international level. It establishes ways to measure the legitimacy and effectiveness of advocacy NGOs. In particular, it suggests that transparency and independence must be constantly demonstrated, that factual accuracy must always be sought and that legal compliance must be shown to have moral and public interest resonance. The …

What Is Access To Justice?, Trevor C. W. Farrow

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Access to justice is the most pressing justice issue today. It has become the major focus of essentially all stakeholders in the legal community—governments, regulators, bar associations, researchers, and educators. It now needs to become an increasing topic of attention for those who use the system: the public. With all of this attention, what does the phrase “access to justice” really mean, particularly from the perspective of the public? In addition to reviewing the access to justice literature and policy initiatives, this article develops a public centered understanding of access to justice. It does so primarily by reporting on a …

Political Science News And Views, Spring 2014, Department Of Politics And Government

Department of Politics and Government News and Views

Newsletter of the Department of Politics and Government at Illinois State University

Introduction: Angles Of The Right To Counsel In Civil Cases Debate: Formalism, Immigration, Reviewability, And Empiricism, John Pollock

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

Given the recent celebrations of Gideon v. Wainwright's 5 0 th anniversary,' it is most appropriate that this Symposium issue focuses on the civil right to counsel. While Gideon was only about the right to counsel in criminal cases, many of the events and articles marking the anniversary discussed the interplay between criminal and civil cases,2 even reaching the front page of the New York Times 3 and various radio shows. 4 Yet historically, criminal and civil cases have rarely been discussed simultaneously.

Introducing Fiat Justitia: An Online Forum, Amanda Utterback

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

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The Unreviewable Irredeemable Child: Why The District Of Columbia Needs Reverse Waiver, Jamie Stevens

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

In 2005 the U.S. Department of Justice estimated that adult criminal courts prosecuted 23,000 cases involving defendants under the age of eighteen nationwide. 2 This means that those defendants faced conviction and sentencing in adult courts. Transfer of those under eighteen into adult criminal court has become the states' first line of defense in the fight against youth crime. However, recent Supreme Court decisions have cast doubt on the wisdom, and even the constitutionality of that approach. Roper v. Simmons held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits the death penalty for anyone under eighteen years of age. 3 Graham v. Florida …

Gideon Is My Co-Pilot: The Promise Of Civil Right To Counsel Pilot Programs, Clare Pastore

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

In recent years, access to justice and civil right to counsel advocates have taken a strong interest in pilot programs to test the cost and effectiveness of increasing the availability of counsel to low-income civil litigants. An eighteen-month privately-funded housing counsel pilot in two Boston courts has recently concluded and a new housing pilot is about to begin in three different Massachusetts courts. Pilots are also ongoing or in late stages of development in several other states. The most ambitious pilot program to date is the multi-year, multi-county pilot project underway in California pursuant to the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel …

Immigration Is Different: Why Congress Should Guarantee Access To Counsel In All Immigration Matters, Careen Shannon

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

This article represents a pipe dream. It envisions an America where no one would be detained, deported, and exiled without the opportunity to meaningfully challenge the grounds for such drastic action against them. Specifically, it envisions an America in which Congress would act in the interest of justice to ensure that foreign nationals held in immigration detention-no, let's call it what it is: prison-while awaiting the opportunity to challenge removability before an Immigration Judge were guaranteed the right to counsel. Similarly, it imagines that even in a time of fiscal crisis and political dysfunction, a Congress that enacts some type …

March 29, 2014 (Pages 1857-1958), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 44 (2014)

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Vol.41 N.35 March 27th 2014, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

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The Weekly Challenger, March 27, 2014, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The March 27, 2014, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Pro Bono Scholars Idea Could Enhance Legal Education, Provide Aid To Needy, Marc D. Falkoff

College of Law Faculty Publications

New York’s chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, is floating an idea that in one fell swoop would alter the structure of legal education in his state and enhance legal services for the poor. His Pro Bono Scholars proposal would allow law students to take the bar exam in February of their 3L year, on the condition that they spend the last semester of law school doing unpaid legal work for the poor. There are many hoops to jump through before the plan becomes reality in New York, but the innovative concept is one that Illinois should seriously consider too.

March 25, 2014 Student Affairs Subcommittee, Council On University Planning And Budget

Minutes

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The Economic And Tax Revenue Impact Of Coal Industry Activity In Nebraska: Final Report, Eric Thompson

Bureau of Business Research Publications

Nebraska businesses and households are actively involved in the coal industry as energy producers and as transportation providers. Nebraska has seven coal-fired electric generation stations. There are 839 workers employed at these stations, or in positions at other locations which are directly tied to coal-fired electricity generation, with annual wages and benefits of approximately $87 million. The stations benefit the Nebraska economy by providing reliable, low cost energy utilized by Nebraska industries, agricultural producers, commercial businesses and households. In addition, many of these stations generate power that is “exported,” meaning that it is purchased by out of state customers. Such …

Listicles Of Legal Websites, Wendy Moore

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Contains 52 carefully selected websites to help legal professionals stay current on legal issues and to help them engage in effective legal research online. Includes blogs, portals, databases, news sites, and general websites.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, March 23, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2014

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Vol.41 N.34 March 20th 2014, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, March 20, 2014, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The March 20, 2014, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Bg News March 17, 2014, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 17, 2014. Volume 93-Issue 75.

State Supreme Courts As Regulators Of The Profession Part I: Supreme Courts And Legal Education Reform, James P. White

Notre Dame Law Review

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Reassessing Attorney-Client Privileged Legal Advice In Patent Litigation, Gregg F. Locascio

Notre Dame Law Review

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