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Law Practice

Dec. 20, 2002

Providing Equal Justice for Voiceless

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky, Daniel Grunfeld and David Lash - "Equal justice under law" may be carved into the granite entrance to the Supreme Court, but it is far from reality in California. A new report by the Commission on Access to Justice, a body established jointly by the governor, the attorney general, the California Legislature, the state judiciary and the State Bar, documents that the poor in this state lack adequate access to attorneys and the courts in noncriminal matters.

Erwin Chemerinsky

Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).

Dan Grunfeld

        Forum Column
        
        By Erwin Chemerinsky, Daniel Grunfeld and David Lash
        
        "Equal justice under law" may be carved into the granite entrance to the Supreme Court, but it is far from reality in California. A ne...

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