{"id":1040,"date":"2011-10-26T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.law.harvard.edu\/journals\/hlpr\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2015-10-02T15:26:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:26:22","slug":"acs-speakers-series-chief-judge-lippman-the-right-to-civil-legal-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/2011\/10\/26\/acs-speakers-series-chief-judge-lippman-the-right-to-civil-legal-services\/","title":{"rendered":"ACS Speakers Series: Chief Judge Lippman \u2013 The Right to Civil Legal Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #505050\"><em>Jeremy Kreisberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #505050\">The HLS American Constitution Society was honored to be joined by Chief Judge Lippman of the New York Court of Appeals today. \u00a0Chief Judge Lippman spoke about New York\u2019s efforts to fund civil legal services for low-income New Yorkers who are at risk of losing the essentials of life, including but not limited to housing, health care, and employment income. \u00a0He began his remarks by laying out the steep problems faced by a growing population of impoverished New Yorkers and Americans, who face dire legal challenges including mortgage foreclosures and landlord-tenant disputes, without access to an attorney. \u00a0In order to address this growing need, Chief Judge Lippman has secured funding from the state government in New York to provide civil legal services to this at-risk population. \u00a0Chief Judge Lippman reported that for every dollar spent on civil legal services in New York, five dollars have been saved due to the subsequent decrease in homelessness and poverty that would push low-income New Yorkers into social service programs. \u00a0Throughout his remarks, Chief Judge Lippman argued that legal services for indigent parties should be recognized as a fundamental right, just as we view emergency health care and public education, due to the inherent ethical considerations and our notions of justice.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #505050\">We look forward to continuing this discussion in the comments section:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #505050\">\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit\">Should all civil litigants have a right to an attorney? \u00a0Should a certain class of civil litigants have such a right?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit\">How does the right to civil legal services fit within the paradigm of due process?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit\">How should we prioritize civil legal services among the needs of low-income Americans? \u00a0If funding for civil legal services is net-beneficial for state\u00a0budgets, do we need to ask this question?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit\">Where does the current case law leave us on this issue? \u00a0How will\u00a0<em>Turner v. Rogers<\/em>\u00a0be applied?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #505050\">Please feel free to add additional questions in the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Kreisberg The HLS American Constitution Society was honored to be joined by Chief Judge Lippman of the New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peZQka-gM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/lpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}