@mjburnett.bsky.social
Director of Access to Justice Research and Programs, American Bar Foundation. Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown Law. Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University. Co-founder, Frontline Justice. www.matthewjburnett.com
A new article on non-lawyer ownership by Professor Melissa Mortazavi, What Lawyers Could Learn from the Corporate Practice of Medicine journals.library.wustl.edu/lawpolicy/ar...
What Lawyers Could Learn from the Corporate Practice of Medicine
Proponents of the United States’ domestic experiments in non-lawyer ownership (NLO) of legal practice justify them in terms of increasing “access to justice.” But what if opening ownership of legal pr...
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How We Got Here: Six Reasons Liberal Philanthropy Is Losing the Battle for America’s Future
Drawing on conversations with leaders across the progressive funding and nonprofit worlds, IP Editor-in-Chief David Callahan tells a story of strategic missteps, blind spots and underinvestment that l...
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Less than 10 state bar associations signed onto this ABA statement in support of the rule of law? www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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Today the Supreme Court of the State of Arizona adopted New Arizona Code of Judicial Administration § 7-211: Community-Based Justice Work Service Delivery Models, a critical step towards achieving meaningful access to civil justice for all Arizonans. www.azcourts.gov/Portals/22/a...
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⚖️The 2025 SC Law Review Symposium, “Making Justice Real: Exploring the Intersection of Access to Justice, the Rule of Law, and Democracy" kicked off last week with our very own @mjburnett.bsky.social, @williamhjhubbard.bsky.social, and Rebecca Sandefur speaking. sclawreview.org/symposium/
Symposium - South Carolina Law Review
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🤔 How can we reduce the harmful impacts of women imprisonment from a global POV? 💡 An upcoming #CSW69 side event will highlight the links between poverty & the scale of the problem for incarcerated women & innovative solutions that UN Member States can adopt. RSVP: www.sdg16.plus/events/csw69...
Congrats to Alaska Legal Services on winning the 2025 Michael Mills InnovAction Award for their groundbreaking Community Justice Worker program! www.collegeoflpm.org
The World Justice Project & Ministry of Justice of Poland will convene the World Justice Forum 2025 from June 23-26 in Warsaw, Poland. Early-bird rate available until April 25, 2025. Hope to see you there! worldjusticeproject.myevent.pl
World Justice Forum 2025
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For folks thinking more deeply these days about why and how lawyers attack the rule of law, I’d recommend this piece by Scott Cummings, “Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy” www.californialawreview.org/print/lawyer...
Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy — California Law Review
This Article explores the role of lawyers in democratic backsliding—the degradation of democratic institutions and practices using law rather than violence. The Article’s central aim is to set an agen...
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