Edgar S. Cahn has co-founded a law school, created the Time Dollars project, founded and directs the Time Dollar Youth Court in Washington D.C., as well as having authored numerous scholarly works and, at the start of his career, worked for then U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

Together with his late wife Jean Camper Cahn, Professor Cahn founded the Antioch School of Law, the predecessor of the University of the District of Columbia’s – David A. Clarke School of Law, the first law school in the United States to educate law students primarily through clinical training in legal services to the poor. Together, the Cahns served as co-deans of the law school from 1971 to 1980.

In the 1980s, Professor Cahn began the Time Dollars project, a service credit program, that now has more than 70 communities with registered programs in the US and abroad.  In Washington, D.C., Professor Cahn founded and directs the Time Dollar Youth Court, in which teen juries judge cases of teens arrested for the first time for non-violent offenses. The Court hears approximately 800 cases per year. (more…)

This is the third interview in our series profiling great legal minds. Burt Neuborne answered our questions by email in January 2011.

Burt Neuborne is the Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties at New York University School of Law. A well-known defender of civil liberties, Mr. Neuborne is the founding Legal Director of the Brennan Center for Justice. Mr. Neuborne was National Legal Director for the American Civil Liberties Union from 1981 to 1986. He is a civil rights scholar, having published three books and authored over 20 law review articles. In 1996, Professor Neuborne appeared as Jerry Falwell’s lawyer in the film The People vs. Larry Flynt. (more…)