Whether legal aid reforms have achieved equal justice remains genuinely disputed.
Evidence
How successful these efforts to increase the accessibility of legal services have been, and to what extent they have given reality to the goal of equal justice for all, remains a matter of dispute. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1198
Categorization
- SEED: Article angle: measuring the gap between the constitutional aspiration of equal justice and the actual delivery of legal services to the poor.
- XREF: connects to: Courts struggle to conceive full redress even for acknowledged extreme injustices — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 1336; Formal legal equality leaves substantive social inequality untouched — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 959; Formal legal equality cannot deliver justice without social equality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 958 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Formal legal equality remains paper rights until material social equality exists
#complicates(0.97) - Courts struggle to conceive full redress even for acknowledged extreme injustices
#complicates(0.95) — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1336 - Formal legal equality cannot deliver justice without social equality
#complicates(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 958 - Formal legal equality obscures real inequality because equivalence as a legal norm ignores difference
#complicates(0.92) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 786 - Formal legal equality leaves substantive social inequality untouched
#complicates(0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 959 - People disagree persistently about what makes inequality fair
#complicates(0.85) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 325