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.
Current Solutions Petitioners, most of whom are not lawyers, have to: (1) identify “interested parties,” many of whom are not
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!
Current Solutions Courts, legal services providers, and state and local Bars have responded to the flood of people without lawyers in
[su_heading size=”18″]D. James Greiner, Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak, and Jonathan Philip Hennessy, “How Effective are Limited Legal Assistance Programs? A Randomized
[su_heading size=”18″]D. James Greiner, Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak, and Jonathan Hennessy, “The Limits of Unbundled Legal Assistance: A Randomized Study in a Massachusetts
[su_heading size=”18″]James Greiner and Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak, “Randomized Evaluation in Legal Assistance: What Difference Does Representation (Offer and Actual Use)
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Almost every court system in the nation has an ADR program, and for most courts, at
