Access to justice
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Access to justice
Oxford University Press, 2004 , [Amazon], c2004)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Equal Justice Under Law" is one of America's most proudly proclaimed and widely violated legal principles. But it comes nowhere close to describing the legal system in practice. Millions of Americans lack any access to justice, let alone equal access. Worse, the increasing centrality of law in American life and its growing complexity has made access to legal assistance critical for all citizens. Yet according to most estimates about four-fifths of the legal needs of
the poor, and two- to three-fifths of the needs of middle-income individuals remain unmet. This book reveals the inequities of legal assistance in America, from the lack of access to educational services and health benefits to gross injustices in the criminal defense system. It proposes a specific
agenda for change, offering tangible reforms for coordinating comprehensive systems for the delivery of legal services, maximizing individual's opportunities to represent themselves, and making effective legal services more affordable for all Americans who need them.
Table of Contents
- 1. Equal Justice Under Law: The Gap between Principle and Practice
- 2. Litigation and Its Discontents: Too Much Law for Those Who Can Afford It, Too Little for Everyone Else
- 3. Historical Perspectives: Legal Rights and Social Wrongs
- 4. Access to What? Law without Lawyers and New Models of Legal Assistance
- 5. Locked In and Locked Out: The Legal Needs of Low-Income Communities
- 6. Presumed Guilty: Class Injustice in Criminal Justice
- 7. Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice
- 8. A Roadmap for Reform
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