AALS Academy Program

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Session Type: AALS Academy Programs

Session Capacity: 108

Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square

Room: Continental Ballroom 2

Floor: Ballroom Level

After years of relative inattention, there is a renewed commitment by policymakers to address access to justice issues. Indeed, in 2010, President Barack Obama created the Access to Justice Initiative, housed in the United States Department of Justice, which seeks to improve access to justice. However, before effective policy changes can be made, we have to know what works. This panel brings together scholars from diverse methodological and disciplinary backgrounds to discuss their cutting-edge access to justice research, with a focus on empirically testing outcomes of access to justice interventions. Each of the panelists has one or more ongoing access to justice research projects. After the separate panelist presentations, all of the panelists will join together for a conversation, with audience participation (both comments and questions), about next steps in access to justice research and policy.