User:Meganyeh/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Immigration law

Which article are you evaluating?
Legal aid in the United States

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article to evaluate as it closely relates to the area that my Practice Experience is placed in. My PE is centered around providing legal aid for immigrants, and understanding the space in which it exists first comes understanding immigration law. This article provides an explanation of the history of immigration law as a whole, and the international obligations that are created by the United Nations. It provides information on immigration law policies in specific countries, as well as the different policies that different governments have implemented in order to address immigration law.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article to evaluate as it looks specifically into different legal aid policies and practices within the United States. It is important as my PE's sector is based around legal aid for immigrants, and focuses on the United States and the policies of the United States. It considers the history of legal aid through different institutions, legal aid at the state level, the impact of legal aid, and pro bono services. Considering all of these components, they all tie into the sector and potential sector debates explored within my PE. Because of this, I chose to evaluate this article.

Evaluate the article
Lead section: The lead section concisely describes the topic, but does not clearly describe the article as it uses broader topic areas that require further research in order to fully understand what the article is about.

Content: The articles content is relevant to the topic and does a good job at identifying multiple different immigration law policies in multiple different countries. This provides the reader with a full grasp of immigration law in a national and international context.

Tone and Balance: The tone of the article does a good job at remaining neutral considering the highly political nature of immigration law. It plainly lays out the different policies of all countries with immigration jurisprudence rather than commenting on the effectiveness of each policy.

Sources and References: The sources and references come directly from each country's doctrines. This is highly trustworthy and provides the reader with the actual legislation that exists in different countries.

Talk Page Discussions: Most of the conversations include discussing adding additional policies as countries publish them.

Overall Impressions: The article does a good job at providing a starting point for individuals to learn more about immigration law. It provides different resources that readers can utilize and navigate to decipher the different immigration laws in countries. However, there is a lack of summary and conceptualization that makes the article somewhat flawed and difficult to read for users.

Evaluate the article
Lead section: The lead section of this article does an excellent job of contextualizing what legal aid in the United States looks like in a way that is concise and allows the reader to grasp what content will be discussed further in the article itself.

Content: The articles content is very relevant to the topic and is sectioned in ways that make the article an easy read. The content also focuses on different aspects of legal aid in the United States that are relevant in providing context for potential sector debates.

Tone and Balance: A flaw that does exist within the article is that the tone is not completely neutral. Some of the language used to describe the history of legal aid in the united states as well as US policies feels somewhat biased and commentary on the flaws of US legal aid.

Sources and References: The sources are mainly scholarly journal articles. These are reliable and sufficient at providing the content for this article in a trustworthy way.

Talk Page Discussions: The Talk Page Discussions for this article are quite slim and only include some commentary on legal aid in marginalized communities and the disproportionate impacts of federal policies.

Overall Impressions: The article overall provides the reader with a well detailed and easy to digest piece on legal aid in the US. It utilizes scholarly sources to present the information.