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Justice Earl Johnson, Jr(USA) |
| Justice Earl Johnson, JR. was one of the
pioneer poverty lawyers in the United States, serving as deputy director of one of four
pilot neighborhood law office programs the Ford Foundation funded in 1963-64. The U.S.
government then declared its "War on Poverty" and Johnson was chosen to be the
first deputy director and eight months later the second director of the OEO Legal Services
Program. In 1969 he became a professor of law at the University of Southern California
where he also directed an interdisciplinary program on dispute resolution policy. At
various times from 1973 to 1979 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Florence
and the European University Institute where he co-directed (with Mauro Cappelletti) the
Access to Justice project. In 1982 he was appointed to the California Court of Appeal
where he still serves. Justice Johnson has written extensively on legal aid and related issues including Justice and Reform: The Formative Years of the American Legal Services Program (Russell Sage, 1974, Transaction Books, 1978) and Toward Equal Justice: A Comparative Study of Legal Aid in Modern Societies (with Cappelletti and James Gordley) (Guiffre/Oceana, 1975, 1981) and a dozen articles. Johnson also was the founding president of the National Equal Justice Library (NEJL) located at American University and remains an active member of the Library’s executive committee, including chairing its International Collections Committee. Recently Elsevier asked Johnson to prepare the article on "Access to Justice/Legal Services to the Poor" for the publisher’s International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He looks forward to the Vancouver conference as an opportunity to learn more about recent developments in legal aid around the world for purposes of this article and to enrich the NEJL’s international collections. |
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