Public Interest Law

By Jay Barth | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 527 (2012). Download full article Need a web-accessible version? Download it here.

By Scott L. Cummings | 33 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 355 (2010). At the end of the public interest law movement’s first generation, there has been a resurgence of scholarly interest in charting the organization, practice, and meaning of public interest law in the contemporary era. This essay appraises public interest law’s professional inheritance, … The Future of Public Interest Law

By Susan R. Jones, JD and Shirley J. Jones, PhD | 33 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 377 (2010). This article describes innovative approaches to integrating public service into law school and graduate social work curricula through the overarching lens of action search, a broad term encompassing service and action learning, and a pedagogical approach … Innovative Approaches to Public Service Through Institutionalized Action Research: Reflections from Law and Social Work

By Louise G. Trubek | 33 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 417 (2010). This article deals with the history and current status of public interest law. It reexamines the seminal work of the 1970s that established public interest law and contrasts the early period with the complexities and challenges today. The paper opens with a … Public Interest Law: Facing the Problems of Maturity

By Joanne Martin and Stephen Daniels | 33 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 435 (2010). The legal needs of the poor have long outstripped the resources available in the legal community to meet those needs. This does not in any way discount the substantial contribution of direct funding and services provided by individual lawyers. There … A Brief Moment of Opportunity: The Effects of the Economic Downturn on the Delivery of Legal Services to the Poor

By Jean Turner Carter, Amy Dunn Johnson, & Annabelle Imber Tuck | 33 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 457 (2010). Every year nearly half of the requests for legal assistance received by Arkansas’s two legal aid providers are turned away because there is not enough staff or pro bono volunteers to take these cases. Limited attorney resources, … Bridging the Civil Justice Gap in Arkansas

By Daniel Haney | 33 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 465 (2010). Many football teams and stadiums (or any other live entertainment venue for that matter), do not provide captioning or similar accommodations to deaf fans and spectators. With the advancing technologies in communications that are constantly emerging and the regulations that the Americans with … Disability Law—Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990—Title II and Title III and the Expansion of Captioning for the Deaf: From Televisions and Movie Theaters to Stadiums and Arenas?