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In: | Daedalus, 148, 2019, 1, S. 49-55 |
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MIT Press - Journals
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 49-55 |
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0011-5266
1548-6192 |
DOI: | 10.1162/daed_a_00534 |
veröffentlicht in: | Daedalus |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | MIT Press - Journals (CrossRef) |
<jats:p> The access-to-justice crisis is bigger than law and lawyers. It is a crisis of exclusion and inequality. Today, access to justice is restricted: only some people, and only some kinds of justice problems, receive lawful resolution. Access is also systematically unequal: some groups–wealthy people and white people, for example–get more access than other groups, like poor people and racial minorities. Traditionally, lawyers and judges call this a “crisis of unmet legal need.” It is not. Justice is about just resolution, not legal services. Resolving justice problems lawfully does not always require lawyers' assistance, as a growing body of evidence shows. Because the problem is unresolved justice issues, there is a wider range of options. Solutions to the access-to-justice crisis require a new understanding of the problem. It must guide a quest for just resolutions shaped by lawyers working with problem-solvers in other disciplines and with other members of the American public whom the justice system is meant to serve. </jats:p> |