Access to Civil Justice; June 2019 in Chicago, IL

摘要：每年有超过1亿的美国人将面临民事司法问题。这些民事司法问题对受影响的人有广泛的影响，包括（除其他外）他们的生计、住所的安全、工作能力、获得保健的机会、参与抚养子女的机会以及照顾生活中受抚养的成年人。这些法律问题中有许多没有得到解决，还有一些得到了不公平的解决。要让美国人有意义地诉诸司法，就需要对公众目前正在发生的事情有一种基于经验和证据的理解。如何有效、可扩展和可持续地提出增加司法救助的具体建议。该项目将包括对参与司法奖学金的学科进行一次人口普查式的调查和一次密集讲习班。它旨在通过识别新兴的司法研究人员、协调跨学科合作、制定研究议程和原创奖学金来建立一个研究领域和证据基础，从而赋予司法研究一个领域的活力和定义。该方法通过确定该领域的新问题和支持在司法公正的跨学科领域工作的有前途的早期职业学者的研究项目的发展，促进了司法公正奖学金的发展。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。

Title: Access to Civil Justice: Integrating and Advancing Theory and PracticeAbstract: Every year, over 100 million Americans will confront a civil justice problem. These civil justice problems have broad impacts on those affected, including (among others) their livelihood, the security of their shelter, their ability to work, their access to health care, their chances to participate in the rearing of their children, and care for dependent adults in their lives. Many of these legal problems go unresolved, and others are resolved unfairly. Achieving meaningful access to justice for Americans requires an empirically-grounded and evidence-based understanding of what is currently happening with the public?s access to justice, as well as which concrete proposals for increasing access to justice are likely to be efficacious, scalable, and sustainable. This project will consist of a census-style survey of academic disciplines engaged in access to justice scholarship and an intensive workshop. It is designed to build a research field and an evidence base by identifying emerging access to justice researchers, coordinating collaboration across academic disciplines, and producing a research agenda and original scholarship to give access to justice research the vigor and definition of a field. The approach advances access to justice scholarship by identifying new questions for the field and supporting the development of research projects by promising early-career scholars working in the interdisciplinary area of access to justice.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.