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Justice for all is a fundamental promise of our democracy, enshrined in our founding documents and engraved on the U.S. Supreme Court building itself. For too many, though, it is a promise unkept.

Civil legal aid attorney Molly Rockett sees New Yorkers when they are at their lowest ebb. Some are dealing with crushing debt. Some are fleeing violent partners. Others are losing their homes. Some ...

In Courts: Unmasked, Alyx Mark has taught scholars of courts—and scholars of American politics more generally—about the politics of state court administration in the U.S. context. Her arguments and ...

What are the real differences between common and civil law systems? Probably not the ones lawyers typically think about, said Harvard Law School Professor Holger Spamann S.J.D. ’09 last week. To ...

Most Americans don’t realize that you have no constitutional right to a lawyer in a civil case if you can’t afford one. You can lose your home, have your children taken away from you, or need a ...