Workshop Proposal: Quality Legal Representation: Definition, Measurement, Theory and Practice

人们普遍认为，穷人无法获得高质量的法律的服务，提供这些服务的系统处于危机状态。然而，对提供高质量法律的代理的性质、原因或后果进行的科学调查有限。尽管在州和国家一级存在几套标准，试图描述什么是优质服务，理解质量代表如何以及何时发生的经验基础，或者它对接受它的人有什么影响，是很少的。该项目将主办一个讲习班，以增进关于法律的代表的科学知识，并为提供这种代表的组织所作的政策和管理选择提供信息。该讲习班将汇集社会科学家、律师和参与提供法律的服务的其他利益攸关方，以促进对高质量法律的代表这一主题的研究，科学界刚刚开始研究高质量法律的代表意味着什么，更不用说研究其原因或后果。 在这次会议上，我们将汇集广泛领域的专家，研究法律的代表是什么样子，以及法院如何能够产生它。我们还将思考有什么不同，为个人和司法系统一样，有高质量的代表到位。 谁做了职业生涯调查法院如何工作的学者将被放置在与执业辩护律师，他们的客户，以及来自其他领域，如医学，教育和组织社会学的研究人员交谈，谈论如何研究质量法律的代表可以推进。 我们将在网上发布会议的几个讲座，以供将来参考，并将在会议上进行更广泛的出版讨论的摘要。

There is general agreement that the poor lack access to quality legal services and that the systems providing those services are in a state of crisis. Scientific investigation into the nature, causes or consequences of the provision of quality legal representation is limited, however. Despite the existence of several sets of standards at the state and national levels that attempt to describe what quality services look like, the empirical basis for understanding how and when quality representation occurs, or what difference it makes for those who receive it, is scant. This project will host a workshop to advance scientific knowledge on legal representation and inform the policy and management choices made by organizations providing that representation. That workshop will bring together social scientists, lawyers and other stakeholders involved in the provision of legal services to spur research into the subject of quality legal representation.Science has barely begun to look at the question of what quality legal representation means, still less to examine its causes or consequences. At this meeting, we will bring together specialists in a wide range of fields to examine what legal representation looks like, and how courts can produce it. We'll also be thinking about what difference it makes for individuals and the justice system alike to have high quality representation in place. Scholars who have made careers investigating how courts work will be placed in conversation with practicing defense lawyers, their clients, and researchers from other fields such as medicine, education and organizational sociology to talk about how research on quality legal representation can be advanced. We will post several of the lectures from the meeting online for future reference, and will produce a summary of the discussions at the meeting for wider publication.