Research

No Money for the Voiceless
Philip G. Gallagher
Laura Klein Abel

Laura Abel and Philip Gallagher express deep concern about the paucity of funding for the Legal Services Corporation.

December 20, 1999
Closing the Justice Gap
End Political Football With the Poor
Deborah Goldberg

Albany Times-Union
September 9, 1999

End Political Football With the Poor
By Deborah Goldberg
September 9, 1999
Closing the Justice Gap
Supreme Court Should Throw Out California's Cruel 'Welfare Magnet' Law
Elizabeth Daniels

As long as there have been poor people in the United States - and that is always - state and local governments have adopted isolationist policies to keep them out. But over the last 50 years the United States Supreme Court has regularly blocked these efforts by declaring such laws unconstitutional.

January 7, 1999
Closing the Justice Gap
Effective Assistance: Reconceiving the Role of the Chief Public Defender
Kim Taylor-Thompson

By Kim Taylor-Thompson, NYU Law School

January 1, 1999
Reducing Mass Incarceration
Making the Case: Legal Services for the Poor
Brennan Center for Justice

Written through the lens of Maryland’s Legal Aid Bureau, "Making the Case" provides a 360-degree examination of many of the inspiring and infuriating aspects of how our nation does, and does not, provide civil legal assistance to its weakest members.

January 1, 1999
Closing the Justice Gap

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