Stephen Pershing, Director, UCDC Law Program, University of California Washington Center

Ashcroft v. Iqbal or Civil Procedure v. Civil Rights

Date: 09/14/2009
Duration: 49:34
Description: Stephen B. Pershing wrote an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in the case of Aschroft v. Iqbal.  In this lecture, he examines the decision through the lens of social justice, and reveal how rules of civil procedure that are intended to promote access to justice can become barriers to that very access.
Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice