Executive Director of the National Center for Access to Justice (NCAJ) and Visiting Professor from Practice at Cardozo Law School. Guides NCAJ’s Justice Index Project.
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David S. Udell, Executive Director of the National Center for Access to Justice (NCAJ) and Visiting Professor from Practice at Cardozo Law School, guides initiatives that are achieving policy reform that helps people obtain justice in American courts, including NCAJ’s Justice Index Project, New Models of Representation Project and Law Student Pro Bono Project.
He has held leadership roles in the national civil right to counsel movement and the national indigent defense reform movement, and also coordinated national initiatives to strengthen the nation’s Legal Services Corporation. Founding director of the Justice Program of the Brennan Center for Justice from September 1997 to August 2010, he has also served as a Senior Attorney at Legal Services for the Elderly and as a Managing Attorney at MFY Legal Services.
He is a member of the New York Court System’s Committee on Non-lawyers and the Justice Gap, a member of the Advisory Board to the Justice Center of the New York County Lawyers’ Association, and a former member of the New York City Bar Association’s committees on Professional Responsibility and on Pro Bono and Legal Services. He co-teaches a law school clinic – The Justice Gap: Strategies for Securing the Delivery of Equal Justice in American Courts, at Cardozo Law School, and has also taught courses at New York University Law School and Fordham Law School. He is a 1982 graduate of New York University School of Law.
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Op-EdLaw Schools Must Focus on Access to Justice
Jonathan Lippman, Matthew Diller, David UdellNational Law Journal
September 26, 2016
Fordham, Stanford and other institutions are working to lessen the legal system's limitations.
Letter to Editor
Turning U.N. Development Goals Into Reality
David Udell, Risa E. KaufmanNew York Times (NYT)
October 2, 2015
The United States championed the goals, including Goal 16. Now it can be a global leader in carrying them out by ensuring their impact at home.
Op-Ed
For criminal justice reform, look to civil legal aid
David UdellAl Jazeera America
September 5, 2015
Any reform on criminal justice will fall short unless our leaders recognize that being smart on crime requires being just as smart on civil justice.
Letter to Editor
Expanding Legal Aid
David Udell, Ellen RosenthalNew York Times (NYT)
December 7, 2014
The Justice Index highlights best practices, which can help states replicate successful models adopted by their neighbors.
Letter to Editor
Expanding Legal Aid (Letter to the Editor)
David Udell, Ellen RosenthalNew York Times (NYT)
December 7, 2014
The Justice Index provides state-by-state information on efforts to meet vulnerable residents’ basic needs for legal assistance in the most critical civil actions involving child custody, shelter, safety, sustenance and health.
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