Faculty Work and Related Resources of Professor Russell Engler

Unrepresented Litigants

• Reflections on a Civil Right to Counsel and Drawing Lines: When Must Counsel Be Appointed, and When Might Access to Justice Mean Less Assistance?, 9 Seattle J. for Soc. Just. 97 (2011)
• The Toughest Nut: Handling Cases Pitting Unrepresented Litigants Against Represented Ones, 62 Nat'l Couns. Juv. & Fam. Ct. Judges J. 10 (2011)
• Connecting Self-Representation to Civil Gideon: What Existing Data Reveal About When Counsel is Most Needed, 37 Fordham Urb. L. J.37 (2010)
• Revising the Role of the Court-Connected Mediator To Achieve Fairness for Unrepresented Litigants, 11 NE-ACR Newsletter 10 (2005)
• And Justice for All-Including the Unrepresented Poor: Revisiting the Roles of the Judges, Mediators and Clerks, 67 Fordham L. Rev. 1987 (1999)
• Out of Sight and Out of Line: The Need for Regulation of Lawyers? Negotiations with Unrepresented Poor Persons, 85 Cal. L. Rev. 79 (1997)
• Summary Process Actions in Boston Housing Court: An Empirical Study and Recommendations for Reform, (May 20, 1983)(with Craig S. Bloomgarden)

• March, 2010—Keynote Speaker, MA Access to Justice Commission, Inaugural Meeting
• October 2008, Speaker, Roadmap to Justice Project, Fall Symposium
• June, 2008—Keynote Speaker, Tapping the Community Voice: Looking at Family Law Self-Help through an Access to Justice Lens, Toronto, Ontario
• January, 2008—Speaker, Joint AALS Conference of Chief Justices Workshop on the Courts, Panel on Pressure Points in the Administration of Justice
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• October, 2007—Speaker, New Hampshire Judges and Masters Systemwide Conference, Meeting the Challenges Presented by Pro Se Litigants
• May, 2006—Speaker, Eastern Regional Conference, Access to Justice for the Self-Represented Litigants: Courts and Community-Based Strategies and Solutions Panel: Foundations: The Obligations and Benefits of Programs for the Self-Represented Conference Information and Resources: http://www.courts.state.ny.us/ip/justiceinitiatives/conference.shtml
• November, 2005—Speaker, Massachusetts Housing Court Annual Conference Panel: Consumer Critique of Housing Court Mediation
• May, 2005—Speaker and discussion facilitator, New England Legal Services Project Director's Meeting, Topic: Evaluating Housing Work, and case outcome
• April, 2005—Speaker, Boston Bar Association's 2nd Annual State of the Courts Conference Panel: Discrete Task Representation
• January, 2002—Panelist and Facilitator, AALS Annual Meeting, joint program of Clinical and Litigation Sections, Panels: Pro Se Litigation, Parts I & II: Where Do Law Schools Fit Into the Picture?
• September, 2001—Speaker, New York State Access to Justice Conference, Panel: Self-Represented Litigants Are Here To Stay

• American Judicature Society: Pro Se Forum http://www.ajs.org/prose/home.asp
• Self Representation Litigation Network:
  http://www.srln.org/