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NewsMaker Interview: Kerry O’Brien of Equal Justice Works on the Emerging Need for Evidence-Based Data
Recently, AmeriCorps changed the way they award grants that may be a sign of things to come from federal funding sources. Equal Justice Works has been an AmeriCorps grantee since the national service program’s birth in 1993. AmeriCorps has supported … Continue reading
Posted in Funding, Research and Evalation
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NLADA Launches Legal Research Website
This is the week that the NSF-supported session on an access to justice agenda takes place in Chicago, so it is particularly appropriate that NLADA is now launching its Research Site. They describe their goal as follows: NLADA is deeply … Continue reading
Posted in Legal Aid, Research and Evalation
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Pattern Recognition Software Advances — Implications for Outcomes Research and Triage
Yesterday’s New York Times has a potentially significant article on advances in neural network pattern recognition software: Using an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes patterns, technology companies are reporting startling gains in fields as … Continue reading
Posted in Outcome Measures, Research and Evalation, Science
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Maybe These Poster Proposals from SRLN Will Stimulate Ideas
As I have previously blogged, this Friday is the deadline for Poster Proposals for the open gathering in Chicago on Research into Access to Justice to be held on December 7. Proposals should be sent to A2Jworkshop@abfn.org by Friday, November … Continue reading
Posted in Research and Evalation, Simplification, SRL Statistics, Triage
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Guest Blogger Claudia Johnson on The Technology Future
With the first LSC Technology and Access to Justice Summit completed, and the second in the planning phase, this blog’s guest blogger Claudia Johnson offers these general thoughts on directions for the future.
Posted in Guest Bloggers, LSC, Research and Evalation, Technology, Tools, Transparency, Triage
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A Pulitzer for Nate Silver?
I have long been a fan of Nate Silver’s election prediction blog, now part of the New York Times. I now realize that his use of statistical modeling has changed, at least among leadership and policy elites, our ability to … Continue reading
Posted in Research and Evalation, Simplification, Triage
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Important Call for Posters — Access to Justice Research Meeting
Here is the Call for Posters for the Access to Civil Justice: Re-envisioning and Reinvigorating Research Workshop, funded by NSF. This poster concept may not be familiar to all of us in access to justice, but it is now absolutely … Continue reading
Research on Young People’s Use of Internet to Get Legal Information
I am happy to report on, and post, a presentation by, Catina Denvir at the University of London, on preliminary results on research on young people’s use of the Internet in the UK. I think these prelimnary results are important … Continue reading
Posted in Research and Evalation, Technology, Usabilty
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Counting Pro Bono — A New Question From the UK
This should get us thinking. An article in the UK Law Society Gazette, Pro bono – minding the gap, as commented on by the excellent Richard Moorehead here, suggests that the current systems of counting pro bono are inadequate. One … Continue reading
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Using Prizes to Engage the Tech Community — A Model for Us
The Federal Trade Commission is using the lure of a $50,000 prize to incentivise new ideas to deal with robocall problem. Best of all, the agency is making data available to help people think about the problem: As part of … Continue reading
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Thougths on Outcomes in a Research Agenda
Recently, I blogged about the planned NSF-funded Workshop on a research agenda for access to justice. I thought perhaps a few more thoughts are in order, this time on outcomes. Lurking in justice system research is always the basic question … Continue reading
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National Science Foundation Funds Workshop on “Access to Civil Justice — Reenvisoning and Reinvigorating Research”
This is a very major step forward. On December 7 and 8, in Chicago, the American Bar Foundation, with NSF funding, will be conducting a two day event on research into access to justice. The scheduling is planed to facilitate … Continue reading
Posted in Meetings, Research and Evalation
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Discharging Student Loans — Self-Represented Effectiveness
The NY Times has an interesting article on how few student loans are discharged in bankruptcy — actually an additional procedure with different standards is needed. There’s a debate about whether the problem is lack of attempts, or the admittedly … Continue reading
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Harvard’s Jim Greiner Promoted to Tenured Position at Law School
This is great news for access to justice and research. Congratulations to Jim on a well-earned promotion to tenured full professor, announced here. As Dean Martha Minnow put it: “As he pursues empirical study of vital questions about the benefit … Continue reading
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Some Thoughts on Posted Comments to the LSC Draft Strategic Plan
LSC has posted the comments they have received on the Draft Strategic Plan. Overall, the tone is positive. Here to me are the highlights, focusing perhaps more on areas of disagreement, rather than the many repeated statements of support for … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Issues, LSC, Research and Evalation
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