Putting Railroad Justice Back on Track

Putting Railroad Justice Back on Track

Description

Sam Issacharoff (NYU Law), a leading law professor and litigator, and Hon. Beverly Martin (NYU Law), formerly of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, after sketching a bracing account of the origins of the current access-to-justice crisis, ask why changing legal services regulation won’t suffice to solve it. Focusing on debt collection lawsuits – currently the modal case in the entire American civil legal system – they show how much of the current crisis stems from adversarial asymmetries resulting from new species of institutional litigants that leverage scale economies and potent new technologies to assembly-line cases through the legal system. They outline a number of potential solutions to better way to contend with the stunning scale of the current access challenges.

First Page

390

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009528535.022

Source Publication

Rethinking the Lawyers' Monopoly: Access to Justice and the Future of Legal Services

Source Editors/Authors

David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom

Publication Date

9-4-2025

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

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