500 | Public Defense is Underfunded, but by How Much? Putting a Conservative Number on the Cost of the Right to Counsel w/Ben Polk

Hunter is joined by Ben Polk, Director of the Transformative Justice Project at New York University School of Law, Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights to discuss a recent law review article he authored where he conservatively estimated it would cost $28 billion to fund Public Defense nationwide.

Guest:
Ben Polk, Director, Transformative Justice Project and Research Scholar, New York University School of Law,  Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights,

Resource:

Read the Article Here
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6359060

 
Ben’s Faculty Page
https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/bernstein-institute/team

 

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