News

By Justice Jess Dickinson

First in a series of pieces from the Representing Hope: New Paradigms for Access to Justice conference.

By Jeffrey Keddie

The article discusses consumer-side terms asserted at the point-of-sale as an option for working toward political-type change via social movements instead of through government.

By David Slade

As an online, interdisciplinary publication, the Journal is positioned to engage a wide audience; address a host of worthy yet under-discussed issues; and hopefully make a meaningful contribution to debates on local and global policy along the way.

By Jay Barth

In recent years Arkansas has made impressive progress on big challenges that have confounded leaders in other states.

By Maggie Carroll

By Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas

Haiti, a close neighbor of the United States with a population of more than nine million people, was devastated by earthquake on January 12, 2010. Before the quake, Haiti was already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most impoverished in the world. After? Conservative estimates for the cost of reconstructing Haiti are nearly $14 billion.

By Dustin Duke

I was recently reading an out of state ethics opinion where the lawyer involved was facing disbarment. The crux of the opinion, and the source of the lawyer’s proverbial hot water, was that he had failed to adequately involve his clients in their case.

By Lee Lowther

In late spring of 2011, David Slade pitched the idea for the Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service to a group of my now co-editors.

By Sarah Cowan

What exactly is cruel and unusual in contemporary American society? We know the ban on cruel and unusual punishment proscribes execution as punishment for certain types of people: minors, insane persons, and mentally retarded adults. What about a juvenile who is an accomplice to felony-murder, but did not participate in the killing? Should this individual be immune to a sentence of life without parole as well?

By Brandon Haubert

Expungement is the legal process by which a citizen can clear his or her record of a prior criminal conviction and start fresh. In Arkansas, when an individual’s record is expunged, the “conduct shall be deemed as a matter of law never to have occurred, and the individual may state that no such conduct ever occurred, and that no such records exist.”