The Yale Law Journal

Access to Justice

Feature

Auto Clubs and the Lost Origins of the Access-to-Justice Crisis

Nora Freeman Engstrom & James Stone

A century ago, auto clubs offered an astonishing array of legal services, representing members in civil and criminal cases, on both sides of the proverbial “v.” But in the 1930s, bar associations decimated these clubs, alongside other group-legal-service providers—and, we argue, sowed the seeds of t…

Note

The Political Economy of Arbitration Law

Gustavo Berrizbeitia

The prevalent academic critique of arbitration, the access-to-justice critique, fails to account for arbitration’s influence on how firms organize themselves. This Note offers a new critique of arbitration from a political-economy perspective, arguing that today’s highly restrictive arbitration law …