Conference: Access to Justice Research as a Tool for Advancing Federal Priorities

美国面临着一场规模空前的司法危机。它影响到社会上的每一个群体，加剧了贫困和不平等。虽然美国所有群体都面临民事司法问题，但这些问题对有色人种的影响尤为严重。每年，美国人要经历1.5亿到2.5亿件新的民事司法案件，其中许多涉及基本的人类需求，比如有一个安全的住所，过上有尊严的生活，照顾那些依赖他们的人。其中有多达1.2亿的问题没有得到解决，其后果是被驱逐、无家可归、失去工资和福利、家庭离散和健康受损。这些问题领域不仅影响日常生活的核心领域，也是联邦决策的关键目标。这个项目是一个为期一天的会议，将汇集研究人员在获得民事司法的一系列主题领域，交叉与关键的联邦目标，包括那些与住房，退伍军人事务，移民和土著获得司法。这次会议将把调查司法救助在关键政策领域中的作用的研究人员与联邦机构行为者联系起来，后者可以利用这些知识为资助重点和规划提供信息。这将有助于提高现有政府数据的透明度，并增加学术研究人员对政府数据的利用。它将创造条件，有利于确定共同目标的优先次序，并将它们与更强有力的合作研究议程联系起来，帮助发展一个积极参与的研究和实践社区。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The United States faces an access to justice crisis of extraordinary scale. It affects every group in society, entrenching poverty and inequality. While all groups in America face civil justice problems, these problems disproportionately impact people of color. Each year, Americans experience 150 million to 250 million new civil justice issues, many involving basic human needs like having a safe place to live, making a dignified living, and caring for those who depend on them. As many as 120 million of those problems go unresolved, with consequences like eviction, homelessness, lost wages and benefits, separated families, and impaired health. These issue areas not only affect core areas of daily life, they are also critical targets of federal decision making. This project is a one-day convening that will bring together researchers working on a range of topic areas in access to civil justice that intersect with critical federal goals, including those relating to housing, veterans’ affairs, immigration, and indigenous access to justice. The convening will connect researchers investigating the role of access to justice in critical policy areas with federal agency actors who can use that knowledge to inform funding priorities and programming. This will help to increase transparency around existing government data and increase utilization of government data by academic researchers. It will create conditions conducive to prioritizing shared goals and connecting them to more robust and collaborative research agendas, helping to develop an active and engaged community of research and practice.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.