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Beyond The Sentimental Cliche: How Local Communities Impact Residents And Shape Public Opinion, Kate Brunk

Theses and Dissertations

The Trump administration has recently established a rule that will prohibit abortion services providers from receiving Title X funds for the non-abortion family planning services they provide. Little public opinion research has focused on family planning and reproductive health topics outside of abortion. I find statistically significant experimental evidence that increasing perceptions of local need for a local reproductive health clinic caused subjects to be more supportive of federal reproductive health funding for local clinics. I did not find statistically significant correlational evidence that objective measures of poor reproductive health at the county level influence public opinion on federal reproductive …

A2j Summit Collection Contributors, David Udell

Fordham Law Review Online

A compilation of biographies for the authors and participants in this Collection.

All Rise For Civil Justice, Martha Bergmark

Fordham Law Review Online

Equal justice under law is an American ideal. But every year, millions of people lose their cases in civil courts, not because they have done something wrong, but because they do not have the information or legal help they need to make their case. The United States civil justice system must be reformed so that it works for everyone, not just for the wealthy and the represented. For guidance, advocates of civil justice reform should look to the movement for criminal justice reform, which has successfully raised awareness and galvanized coalitions to effect policy change. I eagerly await the case …

A Few Interventions And Offerings From Five Movement Lawyers To The Access To Justice Movement, Jennifer Ching, Thomas B. Harvey, Meena Jagannath, Purvi Shah, Blake Strode

Fordham Law Review Online

We are five lawyers who occupy very different corners of justice work. We are civil rights, human rights, and criminal defense lawyers, and we have worked at and managed legal services programs. We have taught law at law schools and universities and have built our own organizations. We currently work in interdisciplinary spaces with community organizers, funders, and other stakeholders in the justice system. As diverse as our perspectives are, we share a common belief that any mobilization around access to justice fails if it does not center the vision and strategies of larger social justice movements. We share here …

Building A Movement: The Lessons Of Fines And Fees, Lisa Foster

Fordham Law Review Online

I doubt we will ever experience something we (or others) would call an Access to Justice Movement in the United States. The goal is too amorphous, lacks immediacy, and doesn’t resonate: If people don’t perceive that many of their problems have a legal solution, why would they rally to support “100 percent access to effective assistance for essential civil legal needs”? The legal system is too big, too complicated, and too removed from people’s everyday experiences. And especially in low-income communities of color, distrust of the justice system runs deep. People don’t want access to a system they believe is …

Integrating The Access To Justice Movement, Lauren Sudeall

Fordham Law Review Online

Last fall, advocates of social change came together at the A2J Summit at Fordham University School of Law and discussed how to galvanize a national access to justice movement—who would it include, and what would or should it attempt to achieve? One important preliminary question we tackled was how such a movement would define “justice,” and whether it would apply only to the civil justice system. Although the phrase “access to justice” is not exclusively civil in nature, more often than not it is taken to have that connotation. Lost in that interpretation is an opportunity to engage in a …

Don't Go It Alone, Ariel Simon, Sandra Ambrozy

Fordham Law Review Online

Civil legal challenges cut across an astonishing range of headline-making social issues. And so, while it is possible to make a compelling case for “access to justice” without tying it to issues of inequality, mobility, race, and equity, that is no way to build or ally with a movement. Access to justice should not just be about “justice” in a narrow legalistic sense, but in the way that the broader world understands it and people feel it, driven by imperatives such as: expanding opportunities for underserved populations; creating legal systems that protect the most vulnerable; and building institutions and structures …

Access To Legal Help Is A Human Service, Jo-Ann Wallace

Fordham Law Review Online

We are in a pivotal, transformational moment for justice reform in the United States. One of the key strategies undergirding the transformation is a redefinition of interrelated systems that can work together to improve lives. This includes defining access to legal help as an integral part of human services systems.

A Perspective From The Judiciary On Access To Justice, Jonathan Lippman

Fordham Law Review Online

I decided early in 2009, upon becoming Chief Judge and the steward of the justice system in New York, to focus my energy on ensuring that everyone gets their day in court. Regardless of how a person looks or where he or she was born, and regardless of whether or not a person has resources or power, justice cannot be about the color of your skin or the amount of money in your pocket. Justice must mean that when people are fighting for the necessities of life, for the roof over their heads, they must get the legal assistance that …

Building The Access To Justice Movement, David Udell

Fordham Law Review Online

There are innumerable individual problems of access to civil justice. Civil justice, or its absence, will often determine whether people can keep their homes, their family relationships, their health and well-being, their actual safety, their jobs, and their opportunity for a fair resolution of so many more of the challenges that life presents. There are presently many important efforts that enable people to obtain justice, both through the direct provision of legal services and through the broader pursuit of systemic reforms, such as securing and expanding civil rights to counsel, expanding roles for non-lawyers to empower individuals and communities, making …

Legislative Rape Reforms: Issues In India And The U.S., Nicole Theal

Proceedings of GREAT Day

No abstract provided.

Apply For On Campus M.A. In Law, Justice & Culture By, May 17, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

12th Annual Research Week--Event Proceedings, Office Of Research And Sponsored Projects Operations

Excellence Summit (Research Week) Archived Proceedings

12th Annual Research Week

"A Celebration of Student Research"

Accommodating Nomadism And Mobility: Challenging The Sedentarist Binary Approach To Provision For Gypsies, Travellers And Roma., Zoë James, Rebekah Southern

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Week Of April 8, 2019 - April 12, 2019, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Today at Cardozo 2019

Events occurring this week have been sponsored by:

• Black Law Students Association (BLSA)
• Cardozo ADR Competition Honor Society
• Cardozo Art Law Society
• Cardozo Business Law Society
• Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI)
• Cardozo Data Law Society
• Cardozo Entertainment Law Society
• Cardozo Environmental Law Society (CELS)
• Cardozo FAME Center
• Cardozo Family Law Society
• Cardozo Fashion Law Society
• Cardozo Federalist Society
• Cardozo Law Review
• Cardozo Law Revue
• Cardozo Minority Law Student Association (MLSA)
• Cardozo Moot Court Honor Society
• Cardozo Office of Special Events
• Cardozo OUTLaw
• Cardozo Public Service Scholars Program
• Cardozo Students for Human Rights
• Chabad at Cardozo
• Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy …

Why Are California’S Prisons And Streets Filled With More Mentally Ill Than Its Hospitals?: California’S Deinstitutionalization Movement, Julia Schon

Santa Clara Law Review

WHY ARE CALIFORNIA’S PRISONS AND STREETS FILLED WITH MORE MENTALLY ILL THAN ITS HOSPITALS? CALIFORNIA’S DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION MOVEMENT

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (April 8, 2019), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on April 8, 2019.

Police Body-Worn Camera Perceptions Pre/Post Deployment, Aaron Veerman

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if officers’ perceptions of Body-Worn Cameras (BWCs) changed over the course of a six-month pilot program. Officers from a Midwest police department were surveyed prior to or shortly after receiving their BWCs (Pre-Test) and again approximately six months later (Post-Test). Once completed, independent samples t-tests, mean comparisons, and Pearson’s correlations were used to analyze the data. This study did not produce many significant differences in officers’ perceptions over the course of the study, according to t-test results. However, several significant differences were found after each shift was analyzed separately. Overall, less than …

Interviewing Criminal Justice Populations Without Electronic Recording Devices: A Guide, Phaik Kin Cheah, N. Prabha Unnithan, Annie Margaret Sandela Raran

The Qualitative Report

We outline a guide for facilitating face-to-face in-depth interviews without the use of electronic recording devices in criminal justice research. It is designed to provide researchers with step-by-step directions they can follow to conduct interviews when recording equipment is not available, not allowed, or not used due to other reasons. In-depth interviews are common in qualitative criminal justice research but require researchers to be highly flexible and adaptive. When interviews are conducted on sensitive issues or carried out in high security environments, recording devices may not be permitted or welcomed. This protocol aims to make the interviews more structured, systematic …

Vulnerable Vets? How Gatekeeping And Stereotypes Shape Access To Student-Veterans In The Qualitative Interview Process, Erica Morales, Anjana Narayan, William Atienza

The Qualitative Report

Based on in-depth interviews we conducted with more than 30 student-veterans enrolled in higher education institutions, in this paper we examine the methodological challenges of collecting qualitative interview data from this population. Situated within the larger interdisciplinary literature of doing qualitative research with vulnerable groups, we explore the implications of student-veterans being labeled as vulnerable by ethics review boards and institutional agents such as veteran’s organizations. Based on our research experience, we argue that framing student-veterans as vulnerable can lead to further stereotyping of this group and to difficulties in accessing an already under-researched population. In addition, our inability to …

2019-04-05, Board Of Regents, Murray State University

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Concealed Carry Weapon Laws And Their Effects On Homicide Rates In The United States, Noah Fischer

University Research Symposium Posters and Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Criminal Justice And Criminology News, Georgia Southern University

Criminal Justice & Criminology: News & Publications (2012-2023)

• GS Dept. of Criminal Justice Represented at Neighborhood Cleanup in West Savannah
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Leveling The Playing Field: Advancing Free Legal Aid For The Family Law Claims Of Ethiopian Women, Maereg Tewoldebirhan Alemayehu

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

2019 Academic & Creative Excellence Reception Program, Lynn University

Academic and Creative Excellence (ACE) Reception Programs

The program for the 2019 Academic and Creative Excellence (ACE) Reception, organized by the Lynn Library, working in conjunction with the Office of Academic Affairs.

Volume 115 Issue 9, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: April 03, 2019, Eastern Illinois University

April

No abstract provided.

Nursing Major From Anderson, S.C., Crowned Miss Gardner-Webb University, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Sarah Bragdon, of Anderson, S.C., was recently crowned 2019 Miss Gardner-Webb University. A nursing major and Spanish minor, Bragdon will graduate in May 2021. “I am thrilled to be Miss Gardner-Webb,” she asserted.

Essay: A “Safety Model” Perspective Can Aid Diagnosis, Prevention, And Restoration After Criminal Justice Harms, James M. Doyle

Santa Clara Law Review

ESSAY: A “SAFETY MODEL” PERSPECTIVE CAN AID DIAGNOSIS, PREVENTION, AND RESTORATION AFTER CRIMINAL JUSTICE HARMS

April 3, 2019 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.