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Motivated by our concern about these problems, the Review of Law & Social Change sponsored a colloquium on March 23, 1985 to examine a variety of issues involving the effective assistance of counsel for the indigent criminal defendant.
The institutional lawyer's already hectic life of high caseloads and constant emergencies will be complicated further by lengthy discussions with clients about conflicts and potential consequences of such conflicts.
More generally, I think the most important lesson to be drawn from Schulhofer's study of Philadelphia is that vigorous advocacy is not as dependent upon the form or forum of decision making as it is upon the quality of representation
Unless criminal defense lawyers are adequately compensated and are able to function effectively, the capacity of government to overreach will not be challenged, and the great protections of the Bill of Rights will not be realized by all citizens.
Throughout the development of the public education system in this country, the Supreme Court, Congress, and the American majority have supported the power and right of the public schools to serve a socialization function.
From society's standpoint it is important to preserve not only Native religious property, but also the irreplaceable Native beliefs and practices associated with that property.
Some feminist theorists and most judicial decisions obscure the duality between the law's treatment of the employment rights of the majority and the minority of women.
Replacing the constitutionally mandated requirement of probable cause with a reasonableness standard subject to wide interpretation is especially dangerous where aright as fundamental as privacy is at stake.
The Supreme Court's majority opinion in Garner, and to a lesser extent, the minority opinion, support our society's concept of civilization by more accurately establishing justice and promoting domestic tranquility.
The tactic is unethical because it is not the product of a good faith interpretation of the law in the client's favor, but rather the exploitation of a disequilibrium in litigating posture not related to the relative merits of the
Mediation is a first-class process that provides first-class justice.
While there are appropriate limitations to a mediator's intervention in family disputes, mediation is a process which can be helpful to families throughout the family life cycle.
The ultimate evolution of American labor law cannot be adequately understood without an appreciation of the contribution of organized labor.
The Symposium and the articles are in part a proposal for mutual responsibility. They have been designed to focus attention upon the complex ways in which the law interacts with politics, society, and radical visions for change. If civil rights
Radical, humanistic, and freedom-loving perspectives can and do become majoritarian, as dissenting opinions do, by consistent and tireless articulation, argumentation and struggle, and by refusal to retreat.
I believe that the most effective way to bring about these changes is for lesbians and gay men to come out, to disclose their sexual orientation to close friends, to the people they love, the people with whom they live,