Asking the right question can be as important as giving the right answer. In her book Judging Civil Justice, Dame Hazel … Genn forcefully argues that the right question about the civil justice system is not “how much justice we can afford” but … “how much justice can we afford to forego.” Although the specific symptoms come from the English civil courts, Genn …

crisis in America’s state civil courts. Despite growing support for active judging as an access to justice intervention, we …

, describes three novel ways in which consumers are gaining greater access to the justice system without using lawyers and argues … that the legal community should embrace this kind of experimentation in order to address our nation's access-to-justice …