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Michele Statz

University of Minnesota - Duluth - School of Medicine

Associate Professor

1035 University Drive

Duluth, MN 55812-3031

United States

http://www.michelestatz.com

University of Minnesota Law School

United States

  • University of Minnesota - Duluth - School of Medicine

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Scholarly Papers (9)

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Legal Deserts: A Multi-State Perspective on Rural Access to Justice

13 Harvard Law & Policy Review 15 (2018), Georgia State University College of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-01
Number of pages: 143 Posted: 06 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2019
Lisa R. Pruitt, Amanda L. Kool, Lauren Sudeall, Michele Statz, Danielle M. Conway and Hannah Haksgaard
University of California, Davis - School of Law, Harvard University, Law School - Faculty, Transactional Law Clinics, Vanderbilt University - Law School, University of Minnesota - Duluth - School of Medicine, Penn State Dickinson Law and University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law
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rural, geography, legal profession, lawyers, access to justice, attorney shortage, urban, nonmetropolitan, population loss, legal education, modest means, low income, law school, Minnesota, California, Maine, Wisconsin, Georgia, South Dakota, nonmetro, nonmetropolitan, metropolitan

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'They Had Access, but They Didn't Get Justice': Why Prevailing Access to Justice Initiatives Fail Rural Americans

Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law Policy, Volume XXVIII, Number 3, Spring 2021
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 09 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2021
Michele Statz, Robert Friday and Jon Bredeson
University of Minnesota - Duluth - School of Medicine, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus
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access to justice, spatial inequity, rural marginalization, legal profession, technology

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The Scandal of Particularity: A New Approach to Rural Attorney Shortages and Access to Justice

South Dakota Law Review, 69 (3), 396-418, 2024
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 May 2024 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2025
Michele Statz
University of Minnesota - Duluth - School of Medicine
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rural, access to justice, rural attorney shortages

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A World-Threatening Feeling: Grief, Moral Injury, And Institutional Loss In Rural Courts

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Apr 2025 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2025
Michele Statz
University of Minnesota - Duluth - School of Medicine
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Legal profession, Rural courts, Judges, Moral Injury, Grief, Pandemic, Judicial wellness

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To Recognize the Tyranny of Distance: A Spatial Reading of Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2018, Forthcoming, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2018
Michele Statz and Lisa R. Pruitt
University of Minnesota - Duluth - School of Medicine and University of California, Davis - School of Law
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abortion, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, distance, spatiality, legal geography, voter ID, voting rights, feminist political geography; interdisciplinary methodologies, immigration, legality

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The Language of a Place

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 11 Nov 2025
Michele Statz
University of Minnesota - Duluth - School of Medicine
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Access to Justice, Rural, Positionality, Courts

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Parents of Global Youth: Contesting Debt and Belonging

Lauren Heidbrink & Michele Statz (2017) Parents of global youth: contesting debt and belonging, Children's Geographies, 15:5, 545-557, DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2017.1284645
Posted: 07 Aug 2018
Michele Statz
University of Minnesota - Duluth - School of Medicine

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parent–child relations, unaccompanied migration, social agency, debt, comparative research

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Between Children and Transnational Economic Actors: The Discounted ‘Belongings’ of Young Chinese Migrants

Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 39, 4-18, September 2016. DOI: 10.1111/plar.12168
Posted: 18 Jan 2018
Michele Statz
University of Minnesota - Duluth - School of Medicine

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Chinese Difference and Deservingness: The Paper Lives of Young Migrants

Posted: 21 Aug 2017
Michele Statz
University of Minnesota - Duluth - School of Medicine

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immigration, China, law, global youth