1: Equal Justice Under Law: The Gap between Principle and
Practice
2: Litigation and Its Discontents: Too Much Law for Those Who Can
Afford It, Too Little for Everyone Else
3: Historical Perspectives: Legal Rights and Social Wrongs
4: Access to What? Law without Lawyers and New Models of Legal
Assistance
5: Locked In and Locked Out: The Legal Needs of Low-Income
Communities
6: Presumed Guilty: Class Injustice in Criminal Justice
7: Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice
8: A Roadmap for Reform
Notes:
Index:
Deborah L. Rhode is Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and
Director of the Stanford Center on Ethics at Stanford University.
She has served as president of the Association of American Law
Schools, Chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on
Women in the Profession, and senior counsel for the House Judiciary
Committee on impeachment issues. She has received the Keck
Foundation Award for Distinguished Scholarship on Legal Ethics by
the
American Bar Foundation as well as the Pro Bono Publico Award from
the American Bar Association. This is her twelfth book.
"Rhode has written an important, thoughtful, and well-argued
book."--Law and Politics Book Review
"What makes Ms. Rhode such an effective advocate is not the
piercing nature of her salvos--which are lethal--but the abundance
of support for her arguments. Access to Justice is thoroughly
researched and finely written."--New York Law Journal
"Deborah Rhode has jolted a million lawyers with a wake-up call.
She urges them to open the doors to the unmet need for justice by
most of the people who cannot afford their services. A challenging
book for anyone, not just lawyers and law students, who believes
that justice can be done if we have the will to pursue it."--Ralph
Nader, Consumer Advocate
"Rhode has written an important, thoughtful, and well-argued
book."--Law and Politics Book Review
"What makes Ms. Rhode such an effective advocate is not the
piercing nature of her salvos--which are lethal--but the abundance
of support for her arguments. Access to Justice is thoroughly
researched and finely written."--New York Law Journal
"Deborah Rhode has jolted a million lawyers with a wake-up call.
She urges them to open the doors to the unmet need for justice by
most of the people who cannot afford their services. A challenging
book for anyone, not just lawyers and law students, who believes
that justice can be done if we have the will to pursue it."--Ralph
Nader, Consumer Advocate
"Deborah Rhode's Access to Justice offers a devastating and
compelling depiction of the illusion of equal justice in the
American legal system, not only for the poor, but for most
Americans, and outlines a sensible and pragmatic roadmap for making
the promise of equal justice for all a reality."--David Cole,
author of No Equal Justice
"Many critics of American law say the system is in crisis because
it is flooded with frivolous claims. Deborah Rhode argues instead
that the system is in crisis because it serves too few people, and
serves the poorest of them, who are in the worst trouble, badly or
not at all. If our society ever decides to make good on its
promises of justice, this book will be an admirable manual and
guide."-- Robert W. Gordon, Yale Law School
"Based on decades of study, the book fights myths with facts, and
offers a comprehensive look at the haphazard way Americans find
help, or fail to, for their most serious legal problems. For anyone
who really cares about the American system of justice, this
beautifully written book is indispensable."--David Luban, author of
Lawyers and Justice
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