Publications
Civil Justice
Improving New York City’s Public Benefits System: A Key Role for Help Desks
This Brennan Center Strategic Fund Policy Proposal sets forth the observations of advocates and of public benefits clients, as conveyed to the Brennan Center in interviews and focus groups that we conducted in 2007. We describe a variety of ways in which help desks can substantially improve the public benefits system and the lives of many New Yorkers. It is time for the City to remove its ban on help desks.
Authored by: David Pedulla
– 02/24/08
Egalitarianism and Exclusion
Authored by: Andrew J. Elmore
– 06/01/07
Access to Justice: Opening the Courthouse Door
Authored by: David Udell & Rebekah Diller
– 04/16/07
Results from Three Surveys of Tenants Facing Eviction in New York City Housing Court
Authored by: Laura K. Abel and Kira Krenichyn, Ph.D.
– 02/14/07
State Statutes Providing for a Right to Counsel in Civil Cases
Authored by: Laura K. Abel & Max Rettig
Preserving Aliens’ and Migrant Workers’ Access to Civil Legal Services
Authored by: Laura K. Abel & Risa E. Kaufman
– 04/01/03
Struggling to Meet the Need: Communities Confront Gaps in Federal Legal Aid
Authored by: Brennan Center
– 03/01/03
Hidden Agendas: What Is Really Behind Attacks on Legal Aid Lawyers
Authored by: Brennan Center
– 01/01/01
Left Out in the Cold: How Clients Are Affected By Restrictions on Their Legal Services Lawyers
Authored by: Brennan Center
– 06/01/00