On January 26, David Udell, executive director of the National Center for Access to Justice at Fordham Law School, delivered the keynote address at the annual Justice for All Luncheon of the New York State Bar Association. In the address,…
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Law Schools Must Focus on Access to Justice – National Law Journal Op Ed (http://www.nationallawjournal.com/home/id=1202768467294/Law-Schools-Must-Focus-on-Access-to-Justice?mcode=1202615432217&curindex=1) BY Matthew Diller, David Udell, and Jonathan Lippman We have arrived at a critical moment where our most fundamental legal ideals are threatened by a…
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After five wonderful years at Cardozo Law School, the National Center for Access to Justice is moving to Fordham Law School where we will be expanding our work and helping to lead a school-wide Access to Justice Initiative. On the…
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Across the United States and around the world people seek civil access to justice to resolve problems that threaten their homes, jobs, savings, custody of their children, even their physical safety and lives. They seek it also to resolve pressing…
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Risa Kaufman, Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, & David Udell, National Center for Access to Justice at Cardozo Law School Access to justice is now, quite literally, on the global agenda. The post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”), which establish…
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David Udell, executive director of the National Center for Access to Justice (and founding director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice), will speak about the modern access to justice movement at a luncheon at the DC…
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The ABA is weighing a comprehensive proposal to change the Accreditation Standards for American law schools. The proposal, developed during an administrative process conducted by the ABA over the past several years, touches on many important aspects of legal education and…
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By Order dated December 3, 2013, the Montana Supreme Court has invited comments in response to a final recommendation by Montana’s Access to Justice Commission for a statewide pro bono bar service admission rule that, as described in the Commission’s November…
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The Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York, established by the New York Unified Court System, has issued its 2013 report on the state of access to justice in New York. Parts of the report…
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Newly posted on the Web is the video recording of a panel conversation hosted on October 18, 2013 by Cardozo School of Law, broadcast nationally at the time, on LLM applicants and New York’s 50 hour law-related pro bono service…
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