Abstract
Commitments to “access to justice” abound. So do economic barriers that undermine that premise. Fees, costs, fines, money bail, and other financial assessments - levied by courts, jails, and prisons - have become commonplace features of state and federal civil and criminal law enforcement. Yet the challenges of funding courts and the harms of debt generated through interactions with the legal system have not yet become staples of law school teaching and scholarship. This mini-symposium is one of many efforts underway to bring to the fore the failures of law to make good on its promises of open courts and equal treatment of civil disputants and criminal defendants. The essays that follow contribute to a growing literature mapping the impact of court and prison debt. This mini-symposium, in turn, offers law teachers and students a window into the breadth of research, litigation, legislation, and legal analyses aiming to understand and to stop what give become regressive tax systems that are produced by virtue of court-based fees, fines, assessments, and money bail.
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