The Commission in the News
District of Columbia
Access to Justice Commission
Media Coverage 2010/2009
Danielle M. Reyes, "New Report
Sheds Light on an Under-Used
Strategy" Washington Grantmakers
Daily, January 6, 2009
Kathryn Alfisi, "Language Barriers to
Justice" Washington Lawyer, April 2009
Robert J. Spagnoletti, "From the
President" Washington Lawyer, April
2009
"Spagnoletti, Edelman Testify on
Funding for Civil Legal Services"
Washington Lawyer, May 2009
Peter B. Edelman, "And a Law for Poor
People: Obama wants to repeal many
strictures on legal services funding.
But more needs to be done." The
Nation, August 3/10 2009, at 23-24.
Peter Edelman,Changing the Subject:
From Welfare to Poverty to a Living
Income Northwestern Journal of Law
and Social Policy, Vol. 4 (Winter 2009).
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Peter Edelman and Barbara
Ehrenreich, Why Welfare Reform Has
Failed  Washington Post, Outlook
December 6, 2009
Recession Severely Limits Access to
Justice, Study Shows DC Bar, Inside
the Bar, December 2009
Commission Chair Edelman Discusses
Legal Services in DC with Rebecca
Sheir WAMU 88.5, December 14, 2009
Report: D.C. Legal Aid is Affected by
Recession Washington Business
Journal, December 10, 2009
The Shortfall in Legal Aid Demands
Help from Area Lawyers Editorial,
Washington Post, December 28, 2009