Ron Staudt notes that the civil justice system is failing the poor, with over 80% of the legal needs of low-income people going unmet. Further, law schools are failing their students by not providing practical lessons for the modern law environment. This paper proposes that law schools can resolve both of these problems by offering an Apps 4 Justice Clinic, which can deliver essential, pragmatic education while simultaneously improving our legal services delivery system for the poor.
Ronald W. Staudt, Apps 4 Justice: Law Schools, Technology and Access to Justice (2011), a chapter in “Educating the Digital Lawyer,” Oliver Goodenough and Marc Lauritsen, editors, Berkman Center at Harvard University, 2011.
