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Lawyer, Client, Community: To Whom Does The Education Reform Lawsuit Belong?, Amy Reichbach
Lawyer, Client, Community: To Whom Does The Education Reform Lawsuit Belong?, Amy Reichbach
Faculty Publications
Important education reform litigation is often undertaken by lawyers with admirable intentions. It is too easy, however, particularly in the context of large, enduring, complex litigation where it is difficult to identify the class, much less name and pursue the class's goals, to lose sight of the client-lawyer relationship and the significance of client autonomy. Several recent lawsuits concerning the enforceability of No Child Left Behind exemplify issues that arise in class representation. In devising legal strategies, lawyers must balance the need to address clients' immediate problems with the pursuit of longer-term strategies for change, such as organization and mobilization. …
Taking Out The Adversary: The Assault On Progressive Public Interest Lawyers, David Luban
Taking Out The Adversary: The Assault On Progressive Public Interest Lawyers, David Luban
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This Essay concerns laws and doctrines, some very recent, that undermine the capacity of progressive public-interest lawyers to bring cases. It asks a simple-sounding question: how just is the adversary system if one side is not adequately represented in it? And it defends a simple-sounding answer: It is not just at all. As we shall see, however, neither the question nor the answer is quite as simple as it sounds.
When Litigation Is Not The Only Way: Consensus Building And Mediation As Public Interest Lawyering, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
When Litigation Is Not The Only Way: Consensus Building And Mediation As Public Interest Lawyering, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
British social philosopher Stuart Hampshire recently articulated the fundamental and foundational principles of the modem conflict resolution movement (and I do call it a movement). He asserted that, "there will always be a plurality of different and incompatible conceptions of the good and there cannot be a single comprehensive and consistent theory of human virtue. Correspondingly, "our political enmities in the city or state will never come to an end while we have diverse life stories and diverse imaginations.'' Hampshire, a socially progressive, socialist philosopher hoped to articulate universal conceptions of the good. In his lifetime of reflection on this …
Public Interest Litigation In A Comparative Context, Jayanth K. Krishnan
Public Interest Litigation In A Comparative Context, Jayanth K. Krishnan
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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