It’s time for Americans to change up the legal system, in an attempt to improve access, suggests the University of Southern California Professor Gillian Hadfield in her scholarly article “Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets.”
Hadfield explained that through innovation, state courts have the power to fix the problem of cost and other barriers to justice for the majority of litigants—they’re just not.
“Millions of those who cannot avoid court—those who need a divorce or discharge in bankruptcy, for example, or who are facing eviction, foreclosure, garnishment, deportation, fines or imprisonment—are left to navigate a complex and forbidding process without legal help,” she wrote. She cited the reason for the lack of assistance as being twofold: the complexity of modern law and the high cost of counsel.
