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In: | Daedalus, 148, 2019, 1, p. 19-29 |
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MIT Press - Journals
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Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
Physical Description: | 19-29 |
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ISSN: |
0011-5266
1548-6192 |
DOI: | 10.1162/daed_a_00531 |
published in: | Daedalus |
Language: | English |
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Collection: | MIT Press - Journals (CrossRef) |
<jats:p> Understanding is sparse about the lives of people who are poor and struggling economically and who need help in solving a legal problem and don't get it. Politics over the past half-century has made them largely invisible. In that period, attacks of the right on the provision of access to justice have rested on the triumph of laissez-faire views: the fresh embrace of markets and the free-enterprise system. The upshot has been the winner-take-all economy of the past generation, in which improved access to justice is largely a nonissue. For access to become a priority of a national movement, it needs champions in national politics, not just in the legal profession. It needs powerful champions who advocate for greatly increased and improved access to justice as a primary American commitment. </jats:p> |