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Vulnerability, Access To Justice, And The Fragmented State, Elizabeth L. Macdowell
Vulnerability, Access To Justice, And The Fragmented State, Elizabeth L. Macdowell
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
This Article builds on theories of the fragmented state and of human and institutional vulnerability to create a new, structural theory of “functional fragmentation” and its role in access to justice work. Expanding on previous concepts of fragmentation in access to justice scholarship, fragmentation is understood in the Article as a complex phenomenon existing within as well as between state institutions like courts. Further, it is examined in terms of its relationship to the state’s coercive power over poor people in legal systems. In this view, fragmentation in state operations creates not only challenges for access, but also opportunities for …
Expanding The Search For America's Missing Jury, Richard Lorren Jolly
Expanding The Search For America's Missing Jury, Richard Lorren Jolly
Michigan Law Review
A review of Suja A. Thomas, The Missing American Jury: Restoring the Fundamental Constitutional Role of the Criminal, Civil, and Grand Juries.