Connecting Self-Representation To Civil Gideon: What Existing Data Reveal About When Counsel Is Most Needed,
2010
Fordham Law School
Connecting Self-Representation To Civil Gideon: What Existing Data Reveal About When Counsel Is Most Needed, Russell Engler
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Over the past decade, the phenomenon of self-representation in civil cases has led to the development of programs designed to facilitate self-representation. A revitalized movement seeking to establish a civil right to counsel has emerged (civil Gideon, a civil right to counsel based on Gideon v. Wainwright), pressing for the expansion of the availability of counsel for the poor. What are the scenarios in which full representation by counsel is most needed? Part of this question involves policy choices as to the importance of what is at stake in the proceeding. Part of this question, however, is a research question: …
Higher Demand, Lower Supply? A Comparative Assessment Of The Legal Resource Landscape For Ordinary Americans,
2010
University of Toronto
Higher Demand, Lower Supply? A Comparative Assessment Of The Legal Resource Landscape For Ordinary Americans, Gillian K. Hadfield
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Systematic efforts to assess the legal landscape for the ordinary citizen - what legal services cost and what fraction of that cost is for real value - have been few and far between. Most studies focus instead on the performance of the legal system for corporate clients or on the delivery of legal services to the poor as a form of charity or welfare assistance. This article reviews and compares the few existing legal needs studies and looks for the macro indicators of the extent to which resources across the economy as a whole are devoted to providing legal inputs …
If We Don't Get Civil Gideon: Trying To Make The Best Of The Civil-Justice Market,
2010
Fordham Law School
If We Don't Get Civil Gideon: Trying To Make The Best Of The Civil-Justice Market, Thomas D. Rowe Jr.
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article considers what market-oriented or market-regulation approaches might be most practical and helpful in trying to satisfy unmet civil legal-service needs and how much it appears that such approaches may be able to succeed in doing so.
Lawyerless Dispute Resolution: Rethinking A Paradigm,
2010
Fordham Law School
Lawyerless Dispute Resolution: Rethinking A Paradigm, Jean R. Sternlight
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article suggests that our failure to focus on the possible need for representation in mediation and arbitration is fundamentally misguided. Although legal representation is no doubt more important in some contexts than others, it is wrong to make the binary assumption that legal representation is always more important in litigation than in ADR processes; legal representation may often be critically important in ADR processes. Because many disputes will be finally resolved in ADR and because legal representation can be equally or even more important in ADR than in litigation, we need to focus simultaneously on improving representation in both …
Forgotten Namesake: The Illinois Good Samaritan Act's Inexcusable Failure To Provide Immunity To Non-Medical Rescuers, 43 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1097 (2010),
2010
UIC School of Law
Forgotten Namesake: The Illinois Good Samaritan Act's Inexcusable Failure To Provide Immunity To Non-Medical Rescuers, 43 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1097 (2010), David Weldon
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
It Takes Two To Tango, And To Mediate: Legal Cultural And Other Factors Influencing United States And Latin American Lawyers’ Resistance To Mediating Commercial Disputes,
2010
Frederic G. Levin College of Law at the University of Florida
It Takes Two To Tango, And To Mediate: Legal Cultural And Other Factors Influencing United States And Latin American Lawyers’ Resistance To Mediating Commercial Disputes, Don Peters
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
This article examines legal cultural and other factors influencing the resistance to mediating commercial disputes displayed by U.S. and Latin American lawyers. After surveying current contexts in which commercial mediation occurs in the United States and in Latin American countries and summarizing data regarding commercial ac- tors’ knowledge of the benefits of mediating, it analyzes the relatively infrequent use of mediation despite its potential advantages over adju- dicating. Focusing on lawyers, the article next explores factors that influence U.S. and Latin American lawyers when they converse with commercial clients about selecting dispute resolution methods. Analyzing similarities arising from universal decision-making …
Lawyering In Juvenile Court: Lessons From A Civil Gideon Experiment,
2010
Fordham Law School
Lawyering In Juvenile Court: Lessons From A Civil Gideon Experiment, Katherine Hunt Federle
Fordham Urban Law Journal
To understand how a good lawyering paradigm may nevertheless undermine client empowerment and perpetuate disability, it is necessary to appreciate the larger ethical debate about client autonomy. This Article will examine two dominant models of good lawyering and explore their implications for client choice and lawyer autonomy, with an emphasis on poverty lawyering. The Article then turns to a discussion of the lawyering experience in juvenile court to illustrate the ways in which dominant visions of the client as dependent, incompetent, and disabled affect not only the role and responsibilities of the attorney for the child but the extension of …
Examining The Real Demand For Legal Services,
2010
Fordham Law School
Examining The Real Demand For Legal Services, Herbert M. Kritzer
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Legal needs are real, but can also be virtually open-ended. Studies tell us that 85% of the civil legal needs of low income persons are currently not being met but we have no idea as to what portion of that 85% legal assistance would meaningfully help to resolve those needs, or how the cost of providing that assistance compares to the benefit that would be generated. This article examines extant studies of legal needs, and concludes that there is a need for baseline data to enable us to assess the degree of legal need that takes into account the range …
Nothing For Something? Denying Legal Assistance To Those Compelled To Participate In Adr Proceedings,
2010
Fordham Law School
Nothing For Something? Denying Legal Assistance To Those Compelled To Participate In Adr Proceedings, Stephan Landsman
Fordham Urban Law Journal
The traditional view of the courts in their handling of unrepresented litigants has been that those who proceed pro se must look out for themselves and that there is no constitutional right to receive personal instruction from the trial judge on courtroom procedure. The opposing view, which has received increasing support, is that courts have a duty to ensure that pro se litigants do not lose their right to a hearing on the merits of their claim due to ignorance of technical procedural requirements. This Article explores the treatment of unrepresented litigants in ADR (alternative dispute resolution) settings, contends that …
Access To Justice In A World Without Lawyers: Evidence From Texas Bodily Injury Claims,
2010
University of Illinois
Access To Justice In A World Without Lawyers: Evidence From Texas Bodily Injury Claims, Charles Silver, David A. Hyman
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Will tort reform capping contingency fees limit plaintiffs' ability to recover for their injuries? If self-representation is a viable option, contingency fees may have less of an impact on access than one might otherwise expect. Conversely, if tort recoveries flow only or mostly to plaintiffs who either actually hire lawyers or can credibly threaten to do so, caps on contingency fees may make it difficult or impossible for many victims to obtain justice. This article explores the issue by looking at patterns of representation among claimants who received payments for bodily injury in Texas during 1988-2005. Over an extended period …
Introduction: 2008 Aba Section Of Litigation Access To Justice Symposium,
2010
Fordham Law School
Introduction: 2008 Aba Section Of Litigation Access To Justice Symposium, Robert L. Rothman
Fordham Urban Law Journal
The 2008 ABA Section of Litigation conducted a symposium designed to explore the challenges inherent in creation of a civil right to counsel and to generate critical though, dialogue, and scholarship on the subject.
Twenty-Eight Words: Enforcing Corporate Fiduciary Duties Through Criminal Prosecution Of Honest Services Fraud,
2010
Notre Dame Law School
Twenty-Eight Words: Enforcing Corporate Fiduciary Duties Through Criminal Prosecution Of Honest Services Fraud, Lisa L. Casey
Journal Articles
This article examines the federal government's growing use of 18 U.S.C. § 1346 to prosecute public company executives for breaching their fiduciary duties. Section 1346 is a controversial but under-examined statute making it a felony to engage in a scheme "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." Although enacted by Congress over twenty years ago, the Supreme Court repeatedly declined to review the statute, until now. In 2009, Justice Antonin Scalia pointed to the numerous interpretive questions dividing the federal appellate courts and proclaimed that it was "quite irresponsible" to let the "current chaos prevail." Since then, …
Regulating Offensiveness: Snyder V. Phelps, Emotion, And The First Amendment,
2010
University of Missouri School of Law
Regulating Offensiveness: Snyder V. Phelps, Emotion, And The First Amendment, Christina E. Wells
Faculty Publications
In its upcoming term, the Court will decide in Snyder v. Phelps whether Albert Snyder can sue the Reverend Fred Phelps and other members of the Westboro Baptist Church for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress for protesting near his son’s funeral. Those arguing in favor of tort liability claim that the Phelps’ speech during a time of mourning and vulnerability is especially outrageous and injurious and that the First Amendment allows such regulation. Their arguments, however, effectively rely on the offensiveness of the Phelps’ message rather than on any external indicia of harm, such as noisy …
Representation In Mediation: What We Know From Empirical Research,
2010
Fordham Law School
Representation In Mediation: What We Know From Empirical Research, Roselle L. Wissler
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article first describes the proportion of unrepresented parties in mediation and the policies and practices regarding representation in different mediation contexts. The core of the Article examines the empirical findings on the effect of representation on several dimensions of the mediation process, including the effect on preparation for mediation, party perceptions of the fairness of the process and pressures to settle, the extent of party "voice" and participation in mediation, and the tone of the session. In addition, the Article examines the effect of representation on mediation outcomes, including the likelihood of settlement and the fairness of agreements reached. …
Organizations Matter: They Are Institutions, After All,
2010
Touro Law Center
Organizations Matter: They Are Institutions, After All, John Linarelli
Scholarly Works
Judge Posner (2010) offers a substantial agenda for organization economics. He advises us on how organization economics can shed substantial light on some of the most pressing social problems of the day. I comment on two of the areas he selects for discussion and offer some comments on the relationship of organization economics to new institutional economics. Judge Posner surely is right to argue that organization economics can help us understand the failures of corporate governance in regulating executive pay. Moreover, with additional and more institutionally nuanced theorizing, organizational economics should further our understanding of the work of judiciaries in …
Reply: Clawback To The Future,
2010
Saint Louis University School of Law
Reply: Clawback To The Future, Miriam A. Cherry, Jarrod Wong
All Faculty Scholarship
In an earlier article also available on Scholarship Commons, Clawbacks: Prospective Contract Measures in an Era of Excessive Executive Compensation and Ponzi Schemes, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 94, p. 368, 2009, Professors Miriam Cherry and Jarrod Wong set out an initial description and analysis of contractual clawback provisions. In this Reply, Profs. Cherry and Wong address three aspects of Michael Macchiarola's Response: its application of the clawback doctrine to the recoupment of executive compensation; the criticism that the clawbacks doctrine introduces latent subjectivity into contractual analysis; and the apparent operational difficulties in implementing clawbacks.
Civil Gideon: The Poor Man's Fight,
2010
Loyola University Chicago, School of Law
Civil Gideon: The Poor Man's Fight, Lee Shevell
Public Interest Law Reporter
No abstract provided.
Al-Iqrar Fi Ithbat Al-Da`Wa Fi Al-Qadaya Al-Madinah : Dirasah Muqaranah Bayna Al-Qanun Al-Madani Al-Irani Wa-Al-Madhahib Al-Khamsah.,
2010
Universiti Malaya
Al-Iqrar Fi Ithbat Al-Da`Wa Fi Al-Qadaya Al-Madinah : Dirasah Muqaranah Bayna Al-Qanun Al-Madani Al-Irani Wa-Al-Madhahib Al-Khamsah., Ghotbaddin Zahedian
Student Works (2010-2019)
The dissertation is a comparison study between madhahib fiqhiyyah (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafe'i, Hanbali, Ja’fari) and the Iranian Civil Code with regards to confession of patient, bankrupt, infant, fool, and the confession of kinship. The study is theoretical, aiming at evaluating the influence of the Ja’fari’s and another four schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali) on the Iranian Civil Code. In addition, the study attempts to identify the similarities and differences between the four schools of Sunni and Shiah Ja’fari in confession in civil cases. It has been done by comparing civil issues between the four schools of Ahl …
Torts As Wrongs,
2010
Harvard Law School
Torts As Wrongs, John C.P. Goldberg, Benjamin C. Zipursky
Faculty Scholarship
Torts scholars hold different views on why tort law shifts costs from plaintiffs to defendants. Some invoke notions of justice, some efficiency, and some compensation. Nearly all seem to agree, however, that tort law is about the allocation of losses. This Article challenges the widespread embrace of loss-based accounts as fundamentally misguided. It is wrongs not losses that lie at the foundation of tort law. Tort suits are about affording plaintiffs an avenue of civil recourse against those who have wronged them. Although torts were once routinely understood as wrongs, since Holmes’s time, tort scholars have tended to suppose that …
Press Freedom In Indonesia: A Case Of Draconian Laws, Statutory Misinterpretation, But Still One Of The Freest In Southeast Asia,
2010
Louisiana State University Law Center
Press Freedom In Indonesia: A Case Of Draconian Laws, Statutory Misinterpretation, But Still One Of The Freest In Southeast Asia, Nono Anwar Makarim
Journal of Civil Law Studies
No abstract provided.
