![]() ![]() ![]() The Network’s Members engage in research projects informed by diverse theoretical and empirical traditions. The ABF Access to Justice Research Network supports and disseminates empirically-grounded research that helps practitioners and scholars alike understand the state of the public’s access to justice and what concrete proposals for increasing access are likely to be effective, scalable and sustainable. Led by scholars from the ABF’s Access to Justice Research Initiative and the National Center for Access to Justice, the convening provided input on participants’ projects and identified next steps for building an interdisciplinary field of access to justice, including the development of a research agenda and a network of researchers. In June 2019, the American Bar Foundation hosted a National Science Foundation-supported meeting for emerging scholars in the access to justice field. Sandefur's latest report: Legal Tech for Non-Lawyers: Report of the Survey of US Legal Technologies With funding from the Open Society Foundations, the Survey of US Legal Technologies sought to identify existing digital technologies that assist with justice problems in US jurisdictions and include among their user groups non-lawyers, whether individual members of the public working on their own justice problems or non-lawyers such as social workers or community organizers working directly with the public. Still others are “under the hood,” allowing developers to more easily produce legal tools. Some tools do legal work others track and manage it. It includes tools targeted at a range of different user groups, including lawyers, law firms, corporations, in-house legal departments, court systems, community organizations, and individual users who are not trained as attorneys. Legal technology is a rapidly developing field. Sandefur's research on access to justice and civil legal needs continues this tradition through innovative empirical research and symposia that bridges the divides of scholarship and practice. Professor Sandefur's research produces new knowledge that informs our basic understanding of law and legal processes and is a powerful resource for policy makers and service providers as they seek to respond to the legal needs of the public today. Since the founding of the American Bar Foundation, ABF scholars have been deeply engaged with fundamental questions of access to justice.
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