The July-August 2006 issue of Clearinghouse Review featured several articles of interest on establishing a civil right to counsel for indigent clients. Click here to access the table of contents and articles.
Other Articles:
Access to Justice: Is Civil Gideon a Piece of the Puzzle? Robert Derocher, Bar Leader, July-August 2008.
Advocacy for a Civil Right to Counsel: An Update. Paul Marvy, Clearinghouse Review, March-April 2008.
Access to Justice: Opening the Courthouse Door. David Udell and Rebekah Diller. Brennan Center for Justice, 2007.
Gideon Redux: A Defender's View. James Neuhard. Cornerstone, Fall 2006.
Shaping a Context-Based Civil Gideon From the Dynamics of Social Change. Russell Engler. Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, Summer 2006.
A Defined Right to Counsel: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? Michael D. Fox. Connecticut Lawyer, April 2006
Trumpeting Civil Gideon: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? Mary Deutsch Schneider. Bench & Bar of Minnesota, April 2006.
Case Raises Civil Gideon Issue. Jane Pribek. Wisconsin Law Journal, March 22, 2006.
A Civil Right to Counsel for the Poor. Paul Marvy and Debra Gardner. Human Rights, Summer 2005.
The Importance of Collaborating to Secure a Civil Right to Consel. Andrew Scherer, May 2005.
Will Gideon's Trumpet Sound a New Melody? The Globalization of Constitutional Values and its Implications for a Right to Equal Justice in Civil Cases. Hon. Earl Johnson, Jr. Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Fall/Winter 2003.
Equal Access to Justice: Comparing Access to Justice in the United States and Other Industrial Democracies. Hon. Earl Johnson, Jr. Fordham International Law Journal, 2000.
Studies/Reports:
Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication. Stanford Law Review, Volume 60, Issue 2, 2007.
Results from Three Surveys in New York City Housing Courts. Laura K. Abel and Kira Krenichyn, Ph.D., February 2007.
Right to Civil Counsel ("Civil Gideon"). TortDeform, The Civil Justice Defense Blog, 2007.
The New York City Housing Court in the 21st Century: Can it Better Address the Problems Before It? New York County Lawyer's Association, October 2005.
No Time for Justice. A Study of Chicago's Eviction Court. Lawyer's Committee for Better Housing, December 2003.
Evictions: The Hidden Housing Problem. Housing Policy Debate, Volume 14, Issue 4, 2003.
Self-Represented Litigants: Characteristics, Needs, Services. Office of the Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Justice Initiatives, December 2005.
Impact of Legal Counsel on Outcomes for Poor Tenants In New York City's Housing Court: Results of a Randomized Experiment. Law & Society Review, 2001.