1. "Should judges decide cases only on the basis of the text of statutes and the Constitution, as legal positivists like H.L.A. Hart claim, or must judges take into account background principles and morality, as philosopher Ronald Dworkin argues?

2. Should clients in civil litigation have the constitutional right to appointed counsel if they cannot afford to hire an attorney, especially in cases involving an alleged violation of basic human rights, such as a loss of housing in a landlord-tenant eviction case?

3. "Is it a fair criticism to assert that the civil justice system must be reformed because "litigation costs too much," or that "justice delayed is justice denied"?

4. "Can and should courts attempt to forge social change? In what areas has the judiciary appeared to try to do so? Do you believe that courts are effective agents of major social, legal and political change in the American political system?"