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86 Rev. Jur. U.P.R. 818 (2017)
Access to Justice in Puerto Rico

handle is hein.journals/rjupurco86 and id is 864 raw text is: ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN PUERTO RICO SYMPOSIUM CONFERENCE DEBORAH L. RHODE* & PABLO J. HERNANDEZ RIVERA Introduction .............................................. 818 I. Econom ic Challenges Facing Puerto Rico .......................................................... 820 II. Challenges in Ensuring Access to Justice ............................................ 821 III. Organizations Prom oting Access to Justice......................................................824 IV . Strategies ............................................................................................................. 826 A. Court Reform, Self-Help and Non-lawyer Service Providers .................. 826 B. Pro Bono Program s........................................................................830 V. Innovation, Evaluation, and Education................................................ 831 INTRODUCTION NE DISPIRITING ASPECT OF AMERICA'S RECENT POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS HAS been the almost complete silence surrounding access to justice. Even more dispiriting has been the complete absence of concern about that silence. Inadequacies in the delivery of medical services under the Affordable Care Act have generated endless debates. The inadequacy of legal services has passed almost unnoticed. One of the only exceptions was in Puerto Rico, where gubernatorial candidates participated in a 2016 access to justice fo- rum., The lack of national policy discussion is not for lack of a problem. According to the World Justice Project, the United States ranks twenty-eighth of one hun- dred thirteen countries in the civil justice aspect.2 Based on a number of surveys of low-income individuals, the Legal Services Corporation has estimated that over four-fifths of the legal needs of the American poor remain unmet, a figure * Ernest W. McFarland Professor and Director of the Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford University. ** Stanford Law School zo7 J.D. I Embajador Microjuris al Dia, Candidatos a la gobernaci6n hablan sobre el acceso a la justicia, MICROJURIS (Sept. 15, 2016), https://aldia.microjuris.com/2ol6/09/15/candidatos-a-la-gobernacion- hablan-sobre-el-acceso-a-la-justicia/ (last visited May 31, 2017). 2 JUAN CARLOS BOTERO ETAL., THE WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT: RULE OF LAW INDEX 2016, THE WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT 153 (2016), https://worldjusticeproject.org/sites/default/files/documents/RoLFinal- DigitaLo.pdf. 818

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