Tidmarsh on Resnik on Access to Courts

January's essay on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is by Jay Tidmarsh (Notre Dame), reviewing Judith Resnik's  Fairness in Numbers: A Comment on AT&T v. Concepcion, Wal-Mart v. Dukes, and Turner v. Rogers, published in Harvard Law Review. Resnik's article draws an unexpected parallel between two class-action cases (Concepcion and Wal-Mart) and the "civil Gideon" case of Turner, linking both to the issue of court access. Both the article and the review essay are worth a look.