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

美国面临着规模非凡的诉诸司法危机。它影响到社会中的每个群体，加剧贫困和不平等。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，美国人都会遇到 1.5 亿至 2.5 亿个新的民事司法问题，其中许多涉及人类的基本需求，例如拥有安全的居住地、过上有尊严的生活以及照顾依赖这些的人。其中多达 1.2 亿人的问题没有得到解决，造成的后果包括被驱逐、无家可归、工资和福利损失、家庭离散以及健康受损等。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。该项目为期一天，将汇集研究民事司法领域一系列主题领域的研究人员，这些主题领域与关键的联邦目标相交叉，包括与住房、退伍军人事务、移民和原住民诉诸司法有关的目标。此次会议将把调查关键政策领域诉诸司法的作用的研究人员与联邦机构参与者联系起来，后者可以利用这些知识为资助优先事项和规划提供信息。这将有助于提高现有政府数据的透明度，并提高学术研究人员对政府数据的利用。它将创造有利于优先考虑共同目标并将其与更强大和协作的研究议程联系起来的条件，帮助发展一个积极参与的研究和实践社区。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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.