Thursday Blog Roundup: Our Favorites from the Public Interest Blogosphere
By Lauren Forbes
Howdy, folks! Every Thursday, the PSLawNet Blog posts a compilation of some of our favorite posts from the public interest blogosphere. Here’s what looks good this week:
- The ABA Center for Pro Bono Reform Blog discusses the great need has existed for years for patent lawyers to be able to help low-income inventors seek their American dreams. The LegalCORPS Inventor Assistance Program has been created to meet that need.
- Advancement Project’s Just Democracy Blog has a piece about how racial justice is officially a matter of life and death.
- Amnesty International’s Human Rights Now Blog points out that while a new nation was born: the Republic of South Sudan, there are still growing problems of violence and discrimination against women in the South.
- The Poverty Law Blog picked up Mother Jones‘ latest coverage of legal aid hysteria, a new proposal would take away $104 million from legal aid at a time when demand is soaring.
- The Equal Justice Work Blog urges you to consider the benefits of federal student loans!
