This grant supports a conference panel that includes Cornell Law faculty and community partners in a discussion of language access to justice, a field dealing with access to government services for language minorities. This issue typically affects indigenous people, new immigrants and people with biologically based language differences. Language access to justice implicates not only equality in government services, but also, more broadly, democratic participation and self-determination. The community partners on the panel include a Guatemalan public defender and a U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division official, both practitioners specializing in language access to justice.
- Beth Lyon
Cornell Law School
- Gerald Torres
Cornell Law School
- Community partner: Instituto de la Defensa Pública Penal (Institute of Public Criminal Defense)
- Community partner: U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
- Community partner: University of Kisangani
- Beth Lyon
Cornell Law School
- Gerald Torres
Cornell Law School
- Community partner: Instituto de la Defensa Pública Penal (Institute of Public Criminal Defense)
- Community partner: U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
- Community partner: University of Kisangani
Bringing a wide range of community-engaged learning initiatives to life