Come take a listen to Episode 0: Get to Know Us Again. This is an intro episode, but each week we’ll bring you updates on RCTs we’re working on in the field or have completed, ethics around RCTs, interesting people we work with both at the lab and in the field, and study successes and failures.
We’d like to reintroduce ourselves. We’re the Access to Justice (A2J) Lab, a research entity within Harvard Law School, that’s been around since 2016, courtesy of a starter grant from Arnold Ventures (nèe the Laura and John Arnold Foundation). Our mission is to transform law into an evidence-based field. That transformation will likely take decades, so we’re focused on starting a movement.
The Access to Justice Lab has partnered with the Toledo Municipal Court to conduct a randomized control study of the Court’s Community Diversion Program. This randomized control study, supported by Arnold Ventures, is considered the gold standard in empirical research.
Jack Frost’s Boston relative might have covered the city in snow and forced several flight cancellations, but the A2J Lab pushed through with its first “hackathon” on Monday, February 13!
