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Full-Text Articles in Public Interest
The U Visa At 25: Legislative Missteps, Bureaucratic Neglect, And Geographic Roulette, Jason A. Cade
The U Visa At 25: Legislative Missteps, Bureaucratic Neglect, And Geographic Roulette, Jason A. Cade
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A quarter century ago, Congress created the U visa with dual goals: protecting immigrant crime victims and facilitating law enforcement cooperation by removing deportation barriers to crime reporting. Yet the program as implemented has fallen dramatically short of these aims. This Essay provides the first comprehensive analysis of the U visa's structural failures at its twenty-fifth anniversary. Two fundamental design flaws plague the program. First, Congress capped U visas at 10,000 annually-far below actual need-while the immigration agency has consistently failed to implement congressionally-authorized interim protections. The result is that, as of 2025, applicants wait five years for work authorization …
Law School Veterans Clinics: Helping Veterans, Training Students, Improving The System, Alexander W. Scherr
Law School Veterans Clinics: Helping Veterans, Training Students, Improving The System, Alexander W. Scherr
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This essay makes the case for law schools to create clinics and externship courses that address the needs of veterans. Veterans legal work offers excellent opportunities to represent individual veterans to obtain the benefits they earned through service to our country. At the same time, veterans clinic work can enlist students in systemic advocacy that changes how institutions address veterans' needs through appellate, administrative, and class action advocacy. Law students who work in veterans clinics develop skills they can readily transfer to other practice areas while working closely with clients and developing their professional identities. Finally, veterans clinics help law …
Harnessing The Power Of Community Through Pop-Up Legal Clinics, Elizabeth Grant, Christine M. Scartz
Harnessing The Power Of Community Through Pop-Up Legal Clinics, Elizabeth Grant, Christine M. Scartz
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The article discusses the effectiveness of pop-up legal clinics in addressing the justice gap by providing free legal advice to those in need. These clinics, operating under Georgia's Rule of Professional Conduct 6.5, offer limited scope consultations, enabling attorneys to fulfill their pro bono obligations while helping individuals navigate legal issues. The initiative underscores the power of community collaboration and highlights the positive impact on both clients and volunteer attorneys.
Securities Class Actions As Pragmatic Ex Post Regulation, Elizabeth C. Burch
Securities Class Actions As Pragmatic Ex Post Regulation, Elizabeth C. Burch
Georgia Law Review
Securities class actions are on the chopping block--again. Traditional commentators continue to view class actions with suspicion; they see class suits as nonmeritorious byproducts of self-interest and the attorneys who bring them as rent-seekers. This approach has popularized securities class actions' negative effects. High-profile commissions capitalizing on this rhetoric, such as the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, have recently recommended eliminating or severely curtailing securities class actions. But this approach misses the point: in the ongoing push and pull of securities regulation,corporations are winning the battle. Thus, understandingthe complete picture of securities class actions necessitates a positive pragmatic account. This …
Reflections On Hope, Erica J. Hashimoto
Reflections On Hope, Erica J. Hashimoto
Georgia Law Review
Fighting for a more just society-a society that treats all of its members with dignity and respect-calls for courage, passion, and vision. People with those qualities who choose to work in the public interest will discover the joy of having a "job" that many days is exhilarating and rewarding and often is just plain fun.' There will also, however, be difficult days. Surviving those days and sticking around for the next day's fight requires a somewhat irrational anti- cynicism in the face of overwhelming odds, a sentiment more commonly known as hope.
The Word And The Law, James B. White
The Word And The Law, James B. White
Georgia Law Review
The Word and the Law is an extraordinary combination of law, personal statement, literary criticism, and theology. In a sense its central question is whether it is possible to have a life in the law that is good, and the answer is yes-yes, though not at all easy. I have often suggested it as reading to students who are worried about the profession they have chosen, and they frequently return to me with deep thanks for the introduction. Milner's commitment throughout is not to abstraction or theory or generalization, but to particular realities. Partly for this reason he begins the …
A Theology Of Justice: Some Reflections On Milner Ball's Non-Religious Practice Of Belief, Stephen Wizner
A Theology Of Justice: Some Reflections On Milner Ball's Non-Religious Practice Of Belief, Stephen Wizner
Georgia Law Review
For the past twenty years, during the first weekend in March, law students, law teachers, and public interest lawyers have gathered in the snowy woods of rural New Hampshire for a public interest retreat. The annual event is dedicated to the memory and legacy of Robert Cover, a beloved law professor, brilliant legal scholar, and committed social activist who died in 1986 at the age of forty-two. Robert Cover and Milner Ball were close friends and intellectual fellow travelers. They shared not only an academic interest in the inter-relationships between law, theology, and literature, but also a passionate commitment to …
Chicken Little Revisited: Nafta Regulatory Expropriations After Methanex, Jessica C. Lawrence
Chicken Little Revisited: Nafta Regulatory Expropriations After Methanex, Jessica C. Lawrence
Georgia Law Review
In August, 2005, a NAFTA dispute-resolution panel handed down its decision in Methanex Corp. v. United States, holding that, inter alia, California's regulatory ban on the gasoline additive MTBE was not a regulatory expropriation under NAFTA's Article 1110. Many of NAFTA's supporters reacted jubilantly to the decision, claiming that it proved--contrary to the "doomsday predictions" of anti-NAFTA "Chicken Littles"--that the agreement's investment chapter does not interfere with states' ability to enact regulations designed to protect the public interest. Such elation, however, is premature. This Note explains how, far from having "consigned to the garbage heap" the idea that the regulatory …