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Moving Women Out Of Poverty: A Call To Action For Legal Aid, Catherine Carr Jul 2016

Moving Women Out Of Poverty: A Call To Action For Legal Aid, Catherine Carr

Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law

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Trending @ Rwulaw: Veronica Paricio's Post: What We Did Last Summer..., Veronica Paricio Sep 2015

Trending @ Rwulaw: Veronica Paricio's Post: What We Did Last Summer..., Veronica Paricio

Law School Blogs

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Women In The Legal Profession, 1970-2010: A Study Of The Global Supply Of Lawyers, Ethan Michelson Jul 2013

Women In The Legal Profession, 1970-2010: A Study Of The Global Supply Of Lawyers, Ethan Michelson

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

This article represents the first effort to measure the changing global supply and composition of lawyers over a period of several decades. In it I assemble data on lawyer populations and gender compositions from eighty-six countries and use them to calculate estimates for the rest of the world in order to paint a truly global picture of the changing supply of lawyers in general and of female lawyers in particular. Most of the data supporting my analyses come from a unique and hitherto untapped source: individual-level census data. Results reveal a clear sequence in the global process of lawyer feminization. …


Advocating For A Civil Right To Counsel In New York State, Kathryn G. Madigan Apr 2013

Advocating For A Civil Right To Counsel In New York State, Kathryn G. Madigan

Touro Law Review

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Law As Largess: Shifting Paradigms Of Law For The Poor, Deborah M. Weissman Dec 2002

Law As Largess: Shifting Paradigms Of Law For The Poor, Deborah M. Weissman

Deborah M. Weissman

The article examines the tension between the principles of the Rule of Law and cultural norms of self-sufficiency. It begins by reviewing the principles of the Rule of Law as an ideal, the pursuit of which has led to historical efforts to meet the legal needs of the poor. It then examines recent legal events including federal statutory changes, three Supreme Court cases, and a federal circuit court case which have limited legal resources for those who cannot pay. The article then examines these developments in the context of a sea-change in the political environment of the nation, coinciding with …


The Right To Representation By Out-Of-State Attorneys In Civil Rights Cases, Edward F. Sherman Jan 1968

The Right To Representation By Out-Of-State Attorneys In Civil Rights Cases, Edward F. Sherman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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