This podcast features a conversation with Kia Franklin of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy ("DMI"). Kia is a Senior Fellow in Civil Justice at DMI.  She has published opinion pieces in, among other newspapers, Newsday, The Houston Chronicle and The Washington Post.  She has a recent article on health care and "civil Gideon" in the Touro Law Review, and also blogs on civil justice at Tort Deform.

Topics include: the work of DMI, DMI's civil justice platform, "mandatory" arbitration, arguments for a civil right to counsel ("civil Gideon") and the effects of the current economic crisis on these issues.

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