WORKSHOP: Access to Civil Justice: Re-envisioning and Reinvigorating Research, Chicago, IL, Fall 2012.

研讨会：诉诸民事司法：重新设想和重振研究，伊利诺伊州芝加哥，2012 年秋季。

• 批准号: 1237958
• 负责人: Rebecca Sandefur
• 金额: $ 4.29万
• 依托单位: American Bar Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237958&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Access; Civil; Justice; Re

In the contemporary United States, civil justice problems are widespread. Just how widespread cannot be known, as the most recent comprehensive national survey of public experience with civil justice problems and institutions is thirty-five years old. In the U.S., these common problems affect as many as 150 million people each year, and have potentially wide-ranging and powerful impacts on core areas of life such as livelihood, shelter, the care and custody of minor children and dependent adults, neighborhood safety, and environmental conditions. Despite the fact that most of these problems never reach the formal justice system, courts are often overwhelmed by the numbers of civil litigants. Local, state, and federal governments, generous individuals, and private foundations contribute more than 1 billion dollars each year to fund civil legal assistance for low- and moderate-income people, but because we lack research on this topic, we know little about how this activity is organized, what services this funding supports, how existing programs do their work, and whether outreach efforts adequately understand and address the most common barriers to access to these services. Little high quality, publicly available data exist to stimulate theory, engage scholarship, and guide policy on issues of access to justice. This project is a workshop convening scholars and practitioners to develop and begin work on a new research agenda for access to civil justice. Invitees include staff from institutions of civil justice, such as judges, leaders from the organized bar, and legal services practitioners as well as scholars from law, statistics and the social and behavioral sciences. The convening seeks to synthesize and coordinate existing research activity and to generate new research activity, including research that can inform policy.

在当代美国，民事司法问题普遍存在。由于最近一次针对公众在民事司法问题和机构方面的经历进行的全面全国调查已有 35 年历史，因此无法得知其范围有多广泛。在美国，这些常见问题每年影响多达 1.5 亿人，并对生计、住房、未成年子女和受抚养成年人的照顾和监护、社区安全和环境条件等核心生活领域产生潜在广泛而强大的影响。尽管大多数此类问题从未进入正式司法系统，但法院常常因民事诉讼当事人的数量而不堪重负。地方、州和联邦政府、慷慨的个人和私人基金会每年捐款超过 10 亿美元，为低收入和中等收入人群提供民事法律援助，但由于我们缺乏对这一主题的研究，我们对这项活动是如何组织的、这笔资金支持哪些服务、现有计划如何开展工作以及外展工作是否充分了解和解决获得这些服务的最常见障碍知之甚少。几乎没有高质量的公开数据可以激发理论、吸引学术研究并指导有关诉诸司法问题的政策。该项目是一个研讨会，召集了学者和从业者，旨在制定并开始一项有关诉诸民事司法的新研究议程。受邀者包括来自民事司法机构的工作人员，例如法官、有组织的律师协会的领导、法律服务从业人员以及来自法律、统计学以及社会和行为科学的学者。此次会议旨在综合和协调现有的研究活动，并产生新的研究活动，包括可以为政策提供信息的研究。