Civil Justice for All is the final report of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences initaitive, Making Justice Accessible: Designing Legal Services for the 21st Century. The project assessed the consequences of the justice gap, reviewed existing civi ...

The Academy produced this short video, defining the civil justice gap, to support the work of the Making Justice Accessible initiative and the release of its final report, Civil Justice for All.  Run time: 4 minutes 45 seconds. Recommended citation: Ameri ...

The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted court operations across the country, prompting judges to postpone nonessential proceedings and conduct others through video or phone. Even as courts have to reopen, many continued or tested new ways to expand the use of rem ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, courts endeavored to find ways to operate safely and ensure that essential proceedings continued. In many jurisdictions, this involved quickly setting up remote or virtual courts, using meeting technologies such as Zoom or Go ...

This Court New Ohio article,  Handle with CARES: Court Uses Federal Funds to Expand Community Support, describes how new funding helps support the use of social workers as nonlawyer navigators in the Franklin County Municipal Court Self-Help Resource Cent ...

Author Kelsea Jeon prepared this senior thesis and submitted this document to the History Department of Yale University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.   Exploring Access to Justice in early America, Kelsea p ...

On Monday July 13, 2020 at noon eastern, the SRLN Research Working Group hosted a presentation by Bonnie Hough of the California Judicial Council and Kelly Jarvis of NPC Research who reported on the major, multi-year research produced as a result of the C ...