Access to Justice Teach-In
In conjunction with the winter 2019 issue of ¶Ùæ»å²¹±ô³Ü²õ, Politics & Prose hosted a discussion on issues surrounding access to justice. Speaking on the national crisis in civil legal services facing poor and low-income Americans were David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chair of the Carlyle Group and chair of the Boards for the Council on Foreign Relations and the Smithsonian Institution; Rebecca L. Sandefur, associate professor of sociology and associate professor of law at Urbana-Champaign and faculty fellow at the American Bar foundation, where she founded and leads the Foundation’s Access to Justice research initiative; Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman and CEO of Merck, co-chair of the Legal Services Corporation’s Leaders Council, and former partner with the law firm Drinker, Biddle and Reath; and Martha Minow, dean of Harvard Law School from 2009 to 2017 and currently 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard.
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