Justice Earl Johnson's Keynote Speech at California's Pathways to Justice Conference Recounts Progress Toward Civil Right to Counsel

 

Justice Earl Johnson connects the history of legal aid in the U.S. to the effort to secure a civil right to counsel, in his keynote address at the 2008 Pathways to Justice Conference. Johnson links previous phases of the legal aid movement to what he sees as the next integral step – establishing more effective access to the courts through a guarantee of legal representation. The speech is available here.

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