Analysis & Commentary
Justice
Keeping Families Together, Saving Money & Other Motivations Behind New Civil Right to Counsel Laws
To inform advocates seeking expansion of the right to counsel, the Brennan Center’s Laura Abel provides an overview of existing right to counsel statutes across the states and the legislative motivations that led to their passage.
Authored by: Laura Abel, in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
– 03/11/10
Evaluating the Reentry Hurdles of Fees and Fines Debt: A Checklist for State Reentry Taskforces
Information on the re-entry consequences of court-imposed financial obligations.
Authored by: Mitali Nagrecha
– 03/10/10
Carrot and Stick Approach Needed for Homeowners in Foreclosure
Fixes to help homeowners with the foreclosure crisis: first, lifting federal restrictions on the Legal Services Corporation, and second, considering more civil counsel assistance options.
Authored by: Melanca Clark
– 03/02/10
N.Y.‘s poor get the short end of the gavel: Pass a law to improve access to attorneys
NY Daily News editorial from former Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau on the Hurrell-Harring case and the inadequacy of New York State’s public defender system.
Authored by: Editorial
– 02/11/10
Community Oriented Defender Network | Winter 2010 Update
Update from the Community Oriented Defender Network on recent and upcoming activities.
– 02/05/10
Fact Sheets | Language Access Problems Among Government Bodies
Fact sheets illustrating the serious harms and deprivations of rights that result when individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) are unable to access essential government bodies.
Authored by: National Language Access Advocates Network (N-LAAN)
– 02/02/10
Emily Berman on the Hashmi case and SAMS, on WNYC Public Radio
The U.S. Government has held student Syed Hashmi for nearly 4 years without trial in New York City. Ms. Berman talks about the case on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC.
– 01/07/10
Timeline of FY 2010 Appropriations Process and Efforts to Repeal Key LSC Restrictions
An overview of the progress in this year’s efforts to lift the legal services restrictions.
– 12/16/09
Living Up To Our Constitution
Sen. Whitehouse delivered the 2009 Living Constitution Lecture on November 20, 2009 at NYU. Here are his remarks…
Authored by: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI
– 11/23/09
Attorney General Eric Holder on Indigent Defense Reform
The Hon. Eric H. Holder was the recipient of a Brennan Legacy Award on Nov. 16, 2009; his speech, transcribed here, focuses on the necessity of reforms for indigent defense, and the current state of our public defender networks in the United States.
Authored by: Eric H. Holder
– 11/17/09