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School-Based Legal Services As A Tool In Dismantling The School-To-Prison Pipeline And Achieving Educational Equity, Barbara Fedders, Jason Langberg Jan 2013

School-Based Legal Services As A Tool In Dismantling The School-To-Prison Pipeline And Achieving Educational Equity, Barbara Fedders, Jason Langberg

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Teaching Social Justice, Expanding Access To Justice: An Introduction, Jackie Gardina, Ngai Pindell Jan 2013

Teaching Social Justice, Expanding Access To Justice: An Introduction, Jackie Gardina, Ngai Pindell

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

"Teaching Social Justice, Expanding Access to Justice: An Introduction" provides an introduction to the publications in this issue focusing on the need for a change in legal education to promote the moral and ethical obligation of providing affordable and accessible legal services. The article introduces this issues' publications which all support the underlying theme of providing social justice to the underprivileged by making legal services accessible or reforming legal education to promote a new generation of attorneys with an underlying passion for fostering affordable and accessible public service.


A Lawyer For John Doe: Alternative Models For Representing Maryland's Middle Class, Lucy B. Bansal Jan 2013

A Lawyer For John Doe: Alternative Models For Representing Maryland's Middle Class, Lucy B. Bansal

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

"A Lawyer for John Doe," explores the growing disparity between the legal services available to the upper class and the poor in the state of Maryland. The article offers four models or solutions that creatively show different ways in which middle class citizens can obtain adequate and substantive legal representation for issues that specifically concern them.


The Costs Of The Pay-To-Play Model In High School Athletics, Micah Bucy Jan 2013

The Costs Of The Pay-To-Play Model In High School Athletics, Micah Bucy

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


A Broken Shield: A Plea For Formality In The Juvenile Justice System, Robin Walker Sterling Jan 2013

A Broken Shield: A Plea For Formality In The Juvenile Justice System, Robin Walker Sterling

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Promoting Language Access In The Legal Academy, Gillian Dutton, Beth Lyon, Jayesh M. Rathold, Deborah M. Weissman Jan 2013

Promoting Language Access In The Legal Academy, Gillian Dutton, Beth Lyon, Jayesh M. Rathold, Deborah M. Weissman

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

"Promoting Language Access in the Legal Academy," details the progress made by the legal profession in meeting the needs of individuals with limited English language proficiency. The authors outlines the current need, summarizes various approaches taken by law schools, and emphasizes the value of training bilingual law students as well as mobilizing a cadre of undergraduate interpreters.


Harmonizing Current Threats: Using The Outcry For Legal Education Reforms To Take Another Look At Civil Gideon And What It Means To Be An American Lawyer, Cathryn Miller-Wilson Jan 2013

Harmonizing Current Threats: Using The Outcry For Legal Education Reforms To Take Another Look At Civil Gideon And What It Means To Be An American Lawyer, Cathryn Miller-Wilson

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

"Harmonizing Current Threats: Using the Outcry for Legal Education Reforms to Take Another Look at Civil Gideon and What it Means to be an American Lawyer," makes the argument that, like medical education, legal education should be seen as a public responsibility. With the extra government funding that would come from this view of legal education, Miller-Wilson proposes incorporating "teaching law firms" after law school for students to practice in various specialties before graduation, similar to a medical residency.


Teaching The Carceral Crisis: An Ethical And Pedagogical Imperative, Taja-Nia Y. Henderson Jan 2013

Teaching The Carceral Crisis: An Ethical And Pedagogical Imperative, Taja-Nia Y. Henderson

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

"Teaching the Carceral Crisis: An Ethical and Pedagogical Imperative," demonstrates that although mass incarceration and mass conviction has increased in the United States, law school curricula has continued to lack any substantive discussion on these issues. The article highlights the need for law schools to improve their current curricula in order to prevent further stigmatization of criminal offenders and the continued increase of incarceration rates.


A Time For Change: Why The Msm Lifetime Deferral Policy Should Be Amended, Vianca Diaz Jan 2013

A Time For Change: Why The Msm Lifetime Deferral Policy Should Be Amended, Vianca Diaz

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

"A Time for Change: Why the MSM Lifetime Deferral Policy Should be Amended," discusses the need to amend the men who have sex with men (MSM) Lifetime Deferral to blood donations enforced by the Food and Drug Administration. This comment reviews the current policy within the current legal and cultural landscape and argues for the immediate need for reform.


A Tale Of Two Systems: How Schools And Juvenile Courts Are Failing Students, Samantha Buckingham Jan 2013

A Tale Of Two Systems: How Schools And Juvenile Courts Are Failing Students, Samantha Buckingham

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Posthumously Conceived Children And Social Security Survivors' Benefits, Kelsey Brown Jan 2013

Posthumously Conceived Children And Social Security Survivors' Benefits, Kelsey Brown

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.