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Lawyers, Power, And Strategic Expertise, Colleen F. Shanahan, Anna Carpenter, Alyx Mark
Lawyers, Power, And Strategic Expertise, Colleen F. Shanahan, Anna Carpenter, Alyx Mark
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This empirical study analyzes what the parties and lawyers described above experience – a party’s power, representation, and the strategic expertise they bring to a dispute. These factors clarify how representation may solve the access to justice crisis for low-income Americans. We find that a representative helps most parties most of the time, but the representation on the other side of the dispute and the representative’s strategic expertise are also significant factors for understanding representation for civil litigants. This study analyzes a database of 1,700 unemployment insurance appeals in the District of Columbia over a two-year period, the broadest and …
Can A Little Representation Be A Dangerous Thing?, Colleen F. Shanahan, Anna E. Carpenter, Alyx Mark
Can A Little Representation Be A Dangerous Thing?, Colleen F. Shanahan, Anna E. Carpenter, Alyx Mark
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Access to justice interventions that provide a little representation, including nonlawyer representation and various forms of limited legal services, may be valuable solutions for low- and middle-income Americans. However, a thoughtful approach to improving access to justice efforts should recognize that a little representation may have risks. In particular, one potential risk of a little representation is that while it provides assistance with a discrete legal need in a specific moment, the nature of the assistance is incompatible with challenging the law. As a result, individual litigants do not have the benefit of legal challenges in their own cases, and …
International Intellectual Property Shelters, Sam Halabi
International Intellectual Property Shelters, Sam Halabi
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Regulating Identity: Medical Regulation As Social Control, Matt Lamkin
Regulating Identity: Medical Regulation As Social Control, Matt Lamkin
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New biomedical technologies offer growing opportunities not only to prevent and treat illnesses, but also to change how healthy people think, feel, behave, and appear to others. Controversies over these nontherapeutic practices are a pervasive feature of contemporary American culture, from students on "study drugs" and cops on steroids to skin-lightening by black celebrities and the over-prescription of antidepressants. Yet the diversity of these controversies often masks their common root-namely, disputes about the propriety of using medical technologies as tools for shaping one's identity.
Some observers believe these so-called "enhancement" practices threaten important values, offering unfair advantages to users and …
The Uncoordinated Public Domain, Robert Spoo
The Uncoordinated Public Domain, Robert Spoo
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Absurdity And Excessively Delayed Executions, Russell Christopher
Absurdity And Excessively Delayed Executions, Russell Christopher
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Do The Property Law Principles Of A Personal "Benefit" Affecting The Runnability Of A "Burden" And The Rule Against Perpetuities Render Unenforceable Promises To Pay Money When Transferred Land Is Used For Specified Energy Activities?, Rex Zedalis
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Federal Anti-Sanctuary Law: A Failed Approach To Immigration And A Poor Substitute For Real Reform, Elizabeth Mccormick
Federal Anti-Sanctuary Law: A Failed Approach To Immigration And A Poor Substitute For Real Reform, Elizabeth Mccormick
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Fiduciary Political Theory: A Critique, Ethan Leib, Stephen Galoob
Fiduciary Political Theory: A Critique, Ethan Leib, Stephen Galoob
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