Making Justice Accessible: Legal Services for the 21st Century

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class="node-title"><span class="project__title project__title--full">Making Justice Accessible: Legal Services for the 21st Century</span> </h1> <div class="project__related-topics project__related-topics--full field field-node--field-topics field-name-field-topics field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><a href="/topic/democracy-justice" hreflang="en">Democracy & Justice</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="project-node__featured"> <div class="row project-node__featured-backlink"> <div class="columns large-12 hide-for-small-only"> <a class="back-link" href="/projects">Back to projects</a> </div> </div> <div class="row project-node__featured-intro"> <div class="columns small-12 medium-6 medium-push-6 large-4 large-push-8"> <div class="image project__image project__image--full field field-node--field-image field-name-field-image field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div 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set of clear, national recommendations for closing the justice gap that currently exists between the demand for civil legal services and the supply.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row project-node__featured-item"> <div class="columns small-12 large-12"> <div class="project__featured-item project__featured-item--full field field-node--field-featured-item field-name-field-featured-item field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><article id="node-36304" class="node--project-feature"> <div class="project-featured-item__featured-item-type"> Featured article </div> <h2 class="node-title"> <a href="/news/making-justice-accessible-summit" rel="bookmark"><span class='field-wrapper article__title article__title--project-feature'>Making Justice Accessible Summit</span></a> </h2> <div class="article__teaser article__teaser--project-feature field field-node--field-teaser-plain field-name-field-teaser-plain field-type-string-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">As part of its Making Justice Accessible project, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences hosted a summit in March 2024 to bring together a diverse group of participants to address the civil justice gap. </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="content-sections" > <div class=" local-nav__wrapper show-for-large"> <div class="row"> <div class="columns large-2" data-sticky-container> <div class="sticky" data-sticky data-top-anchor="content-sections:top" data-btm-anchor="content-sections:bottom" data-margin-top="1"> <div id="page__local-nav"> <ul class="menu vertical"> <li><a class="content-section-menu overview" href="#overview">Overview</a></li> <li><a class="content-section-menu people" href="#people">People</a></li> <li><a class="content-section-menu publications" href="#publications">Publications</a></li> <li><a class="content-section-menu 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formatted-text__body--default field field-paragraph--field-body field-name-field-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p><span>Making Justice Accessible is a multi-year, multi-phase project designed to explore, better understand, and help address the civil justice gap that exists between the supply and demand for civil legal services in America.</span></p><p><span>The scholars, practitioners, champions, and policymakers working on the Making Justice Accessible project sought to assess the extent unmet needs, identify the primary causes of the problem, highlight innovative solutions, and recommend nationwide improvements. The data work was led by Mark Hansen and Rebecca Sandefur. Kenneth Frazier, John Levi, and Martha Minow led the design work.</span></p><p><span>The project produced an </span><a href="/civil-justice-gap-video"><span>explainer video about the civil justice gap</span></a><span> and three publications, which are online in their entirety:</span></p><ul><li><span>An issue of </span><em><span>Daedalus</span></em><span> (the Academy’s quarterly journal), </span><a href="/daedalus/access-to-justice"><span>Access to Justice</span></a><span>, includes 24 essays about the civil legal services crisis facing poor and low-income Americans: from the challenges of providing quality assistance to more people, to the social and economic costs of an often unresponsive legal system, to the opportunities for improvement offered by new technologies, professional innovations, and fresh approaches to the justice gap.</span></li><li><span>A paper, </span><a href="/publication/measuring-civil-justice-all"><span>Measuring Civil Justice for All</span></a><span>, provides a blueprint for the collection of data about civil justice activity in the United States. It also describes a range of data access standards that would help to guide the use of civil justice data for administrative and research purposes.</span></li><li class="paragraph"><span>The report </span><a href="/publication/civil-justice-for-all"><span>Civil Justice for All</span></a><span> proposes nationwide recommendations to close the gap so that Americans, irrespective of income, have access to legal advice and assistance when they need it most. The recommendations and </span><a href="/civil-justice-innovation">innovative approaches</a> <span>are rooted in </span><a href="/publication/civil-justice-for-all/section/12"><span>four categories</span></a><span> of civil legal problems: family, health care, housing, and veterans affairs.</span></li></ul><p><span>Following the release of the three publications, the focus of the project is on sharing the research and recommendations to advance awareness of the civil justice gap; increase connectedness among leaders, institutions, and philanthropy to support collaboration on behalf of civil legal services; and fundamentally </span><a href="/making-justice-accessible-national-coordination"><span>expand access to justice</span></a><span>. </span></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="people" class="project-node__people content-section accordion-item" data-accordion-item data-toggler=".more-visible"> <a class="accordion-title" href="#people">People</a> <div class="accordion-content" data-tab-content > <h2 class="accordion-content-heading">People</h2> <div class="row column"> <div class="project__project-chairs-label project__project-chairs-label--full field field-node--field-chairs-label field-name-field-chairs-label field-type-string field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Chairs for Design and Data Projects </div> </div> </div> <div class="project__project-chairs project__project-chairs--full field field-node--field-chairs field-name-field-chairs field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><article> <div class="person__headshot person__headshot--card field field-node--field-headshot field-name-field-headshot field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"> <a href="/person/kenneth-c-frazier"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/headshot_1x/public/person/headshots/Headshot_Frazier.jpg.webp?itok=YQNU_ZKE 1x, /sites/default/files/styles/headshot_2x/public/person/headshots/Headshot_Frazier.jpg.webp?itok=QRK6d2MZ 2x" width="130" height="130" src="/sites/default/files/styles/headshot_1x/public/person/headshots/Headshot_Frazier.jpg.webp?itok=YQNU_ZKE" alt="" /> </a> </div> </div> </div> <h3> <a href="/person/kenneth-c-frazier" rel="bookmark"><span class="person__full-name person__full-name--card">Kenneth C. 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This is called the access to justice gap, and it’s one of the most urgent — and under-discussed — civil rights issues of our time.</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article__source article__source--teaser field field-node--field-article-source field-name-field-article-source field-type-entity-reference field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label">Source</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">CNN Opinion</div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="text-align-center clear"> <a class="button project-node__show-more" data-toggle="news-updates">Show More News & Updates</a> </div> <div class="views-element-container"><div class="view view-related-articles view-id-related_articles view-display-id-project_more js-view-dom-id-84f3f66a8ab144527d370b13932ebaf83f0eeb8f69c9f9aaa5df1de79fccd06b"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="view-content-inner"> <div class="views-row"><article class="article-teaser clearfix"> <div class="article-teaser__image"> <a href="/news/project-advance-civil-justice-access-21st-century"><div class="image article__image article__image--teaser field field-node--field-image field-name-field-image field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-teaser-image media--image--teaser-image"> <div class="image__image image__image--teaser-image field field-media--image field-name-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_2x/public/media/images/Legal-Access.jpg.webp?itok=t1YrTaT3 2x" width="580" height="400" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_1x/public/media/images/Legal-Access.jpg.webp?itok=1NP2O3LG" /> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="article-teaser__content"> <div class="inline article-teaser__date"> <div class="article__article-type article__article-type--teaser field field-node--field-article-type field-name-field-article-type field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Bulletin</div> </div> </div> <span class="pipe">|</span> <div class="article__publication-date article__publication-date--teaser field field-node--field-publication-date field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><time datetime="2021-05-03T12:00:00Z">May 3, 2021</time> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h3 class="node-title article-teaser__title"> <a href="/news/project-advance-civil-justice-access-21st-century" rel="bookmark"><span class='field-wrapper article__title article__title--teaser'>A Project to Advance Civil Justice Access in the 21st Century</span></a> </h3> <div class="article-teaser__body"> <div class="article__teaser article__teaser--teaser field field-node--field-teaser-plain field-name-field-teaser-plain field-type-string-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">An engraving above the western entrance to the U.S. Supreme Court proclaims a bold ideal for the American judicial system: “equal justice under law.” Unfortunately, the nation has not yet achieved the Court’s aspiration. 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School professor and cochair of Academy project on Making Justice Accessible Martha Minow discusses forgiveness in the American legal system with NPR host Michel Martin.</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article__source article__source--teaser field field-node--field-article-source field-name-field-article-source field-type-entity-reference field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label">Source</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">PBS NewsHour</div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"><article class="article-teaser clearfix"> <div class="article-teaser__image"> <a href="/news/lawyers-who-needs-em"><div class="image article__image article__image--teaser field field-node--field-image field-name-field-image field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-teaser-image media--image--teaser-image"> <div class="image__image 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field-node--field-publication-date field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><time datetime="2019-08-17T12:00:00Z">Aug 17, 2019</time> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h3 class="node-title article-teaser__title"> <a href="/news/lawyers-who-needs-em" rel="bookmark"><span class='field-wrapper article__title article__title--teaser'>Lawyers: Who Needs ’Em?</span></a> </h3> <div class="article-teaser__body"> <div class="article__teaser article__teaser--teaser field field-node--field-teaser-plain field-name-field-teaser-plain field-type-string-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Dahlia Lithwick discusses lack of legal representation and access to justice with Rebecca Sandefur, cochair of Academy project on Making Justice Accessible.</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article__source article__source--teaser field field-node--field-article-source field-name-field-article-source field-type-entity-reference field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label">Source</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Slate</div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"><article class="article-teaser clearfix"> <div class="article-teaser__image"> <a href="/news/why-civil-courts-larger-problems-cant-be-simplified-away"><div class="image article__image article__image--teaser field field-node--field-image field-name-field-image field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-teaser-image media--image--teaser-image"> <div class="image__image image__image--teaser-image field field-media--image field-name-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"> <img loading="eager" 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2, 2019</time> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h3 class="node-title article-teaser__title"> <a href="/news/why-civil-courts-larger-problems-cant-be-simplified-away" rel="bookmark"><span class='field-wrapper article__title article__title--teaser'>Why civil courts’ larger problems can’t be simplified away</span></a> </h3> <div class="article-teaser__body"> <div class="article__teaser article__teaser--teaser field field-node--field-teaser-plain field-name-field-teaser-plain field-type-string-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">What if, by simplifying the courts — and expecting low-income people without representation to make productive use of the do-it-yourself tools available to them — the courts are inadvertently hindering access to justice? Lawyers Colleen Shanahan and Anna Carpenter make the argument in their Daedalus essay on why "Simplified Courts Can’t Solve Inequality."</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article__source article__source--teaser field field-node--field-article-source field-name-field-article-source field-type-entity-reference field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label">Source</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Thomson Reuters</div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"><article class="article-teaser clearfix"> <div class="article-teaser__content"> <div class="inline article-teaser__date"> <div class="article__article-type article__article-type--teaser field field-node--field-article-type field-name-field-article-type field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Bulletin</div> </div> </div> <span class="pipe">|</span> <div class="article__publication-date article__publication-date--teaser field field-node--field-publication-date field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><time datetime="2019-03-08T12:00:00Z">Mar 8, 2019</time> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h3 class="node-title article-teaser__title"> <a href="/news/new-issue-daedalus-takes-justice-gap-facing-poor-and-low-income-americans-0" rel="bookmark"><span class='field-wrapper article__title article__title--teaser'>New Issue of Dædalus Takes on the Justice Gap Facing Poor and Low-Income Americans</span></a> </h3> <div class="article-teaser__body"> <div class="article__teaser article__teaser--teaser field field-node--field-teaser-plain field-name-field-teaser-plain field-type-string-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">On January 7, 2019, the Academy published the first open-access issue of Dædalus in the journal’s sixty-four-year history. “Access to Justice,” the Winter 2019 issue, is a multidisciplinary examination of the national crisis in legal services, from the challenges of providing quality legal assistance to more people, to the social and economic costs of an of- ten unresponsive legal system, to the opportunities for improvement offered by new technologies, professional innovations, and fresh ways of thinking about the crisis.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"><article class="article-teaser clearfix"> <div class="article-teaser__content"> <div class="inline article-teaser__date"> <div class="article__article-type article__article-type--teaser field field-node--field-article-type field-name-field-article-type field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">In the News</div> </div> </div> <span class="pipe">|</span> <div class="article__publication-date article__publication-date--teaser field field-node--field-publication-date field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><time datetime="2019-02-13T12:00:00Z">Feb 13, 2019</time> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h3 class="node-title article-teaser__title"> <a href="/news/everyone-needs-legal-help-doesnt-mean-everyone-needs-lawyer" rel="bookmark"><span class='field-wrapper article__title article__title--teaser'>Everyone Needs Legal Help. That Doesn’t Mean Everyone Needs a Lawyer.</span></a> </h3> <div class="article-teaser__body"> <div class="article__teaser article__teaser--teaser field field-node--field-teaser-plain field-name-field-teaser-plain field-type-string-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Rebecca Sandefur, cochair of Academy project on access to justice, believes America needs a new model for handling everyday legal issues.</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article__source article__source--teaser field field-node--field-article-source field-name-field-article-source field-type-entity-reference field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label">Source</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">The New York Times</div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"><article class="article-teaser clearfix"> <div class="article-teaser__image"> <a href="/news/new-issue-daedalus-takes-justice-gap-facing-poor-and-low-income-americans"><div class="image article__image article__image--teaser field field-node--field-image field-name-field-image field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><article class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-teaser-image media--image--teaser-image"> <div class="image__image image__image--teaser-image field field-media--image field-name-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_2x/public/media/images/United%20States%20Court%20House%20Image.jpg.webp?itok=Ok-630Ej 2x" width="580" height="400" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_1x/public/media/images/United%20States%20Court%20House%20Image.jpg.webp?itok=PnC5DxLu" /> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="article-teaser__content"> <div class="inline article-teaser__date"> <div class="article__article-type article__article-type--teaser field field-node--field-article-type field-name-field-article-type field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Press Release</div> </div> </div> <span class="pipe">|</span> <div class="article__publication-date article__publication-date--teaser field field-node--field-publication-date field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><time datetime="2019-01-07T12:00:00Z">Jan 7, 2019</time> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h3 class="node-title article-teaser__title"> <a href="/news/new-issue-daedalus-takes-justice-gap-facing-poor-and-low-income-americans" rel="bookmark"><span class='field-wrapper article__title article__title--teaser'>New Issue of Dædalus Takes on the Justice Gap Facing Poor and Low-Income Americans</span></a> </h3> <div class="article-teaser__body"> <div class="article__teaser article__teaser--teaser field field-node--field-teaser-plain field-name-field-teaser-plain field-type-string-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">“Access to Justice,” the Winter 2019 issue of Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, is a multidisciplinary exploration of the challenges, costs, and opportunities related to the crisis of limited civil legal services. </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"><article class="article-teaser clearfix"> <div class="article-teaser__content"> <div class="inline article-teaser__date"> <div class="article__article-type article__article-type--teaser field field-node--field-article-type field-name-field-article-type field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">In the News</div> </div> </div> <span class="pipe">|</span> <div class="article__publication-date article__publication-date--teaser field field-node--field-publication-date field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><time datetime="2019-01-06T12:00:00Z">Jan 6, 2019</time> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h3 class="node-title article-teaser__title"> <a href="/news/famed-journal-lends-its-clout-fighting-access-crisis" rel="bookmark"><span class='field-wrapper article__title article__title--teaser'>Famed Journal Lends Its Clout To Fighting Access Crisis</span></a> </h3> <div class="article-teaser__body"> <div class="article__teaser article__teaser--teaser field field-node--field-teaser-plain field-name-field-teaser-plain field-type-string-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Access to justice is a “stunningly invisible issue given its importance in the country.” The latest issue of Daedalus, featuring two dozen articles from leading law professors, researchers and experts, shines a spotlight on a topic that often gets lost in the din of a nonstop news cycle.</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article__source article__source--teaser field field-node--field-article-source field-name-field-article-source field-type-entity-reference field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label">Source</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Law360</div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"><article class="article-teaser clearfix"> <div class="article-teaser__content"> <div class="inline article-teaser__date"> <div class="article__article-type article__article-type--teaser field field-node--field-article-type field-name-field-article-type field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Bulletin</div> </div> </div> <span class="pipe">|</span> <div class="article__publication-date article__publication-date--teaser field field-node--field-publication-date field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><time datetime="2016-03-24T12:00:00Z">Mar 24, 2016</time> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h3 class="node-title article-teaser__title"> <a href="/news/making-justice-accessible" rel="bookmark"><span class='field-wrapper article__title article__title--teaser'>Making Justice Accessible</span></a> </h3> <div class="article-teaser__body"> <div class="article__teaser article__teaser--teaser field field-node--field-teaser-plain field-name-field-teaser-plain field-type-string-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">On November 11, 2015, Diane P. Wood, Goodwin Liu, and David S. Tatel discussed issues of access to the justice system. The program, which served as the 2027th Stated Meeting and the Inaugural Distinguished Morton L. Mandel Annual Public Lecture, was streamed to gatherings of members in four cities around the country: New York, Washington, Chicago, and Berkeley. The program concluded the first day of a two-day Academy symposium on the state of legal services for low-income Americans, which brought together federal and state judges, lawyers, legal scholars, and legal aid providers concerned about the state of legal services for Americans.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"><article class="article-teaser clearfix"> <div class="article-teaser__content"> <div class="inline article-teaser__date"> <div class="article__article-type article__article-type--teaser field field-node--field-article-type field-name-field-article-type field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Bulletin</div> </div> </div> <span class="pipe">|</span> <div class="article__publication-date article__publication-date--teaser field field-node--field-publication-date field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><time datetime="2016-03-24T12:00:00Z">Mar 24, 2016</time> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h3 class="node-title article-teaser__title"> <a href="/news/legal-services-low-income-americans" rel="bookmark"><span class='field-wrapper article__title article__title--teaser'>Legal Services for Low-Income Americans</span></a> </h3> <div class="article-teaser__body"> <div class="article__teaser article__teaser--teaser field field-node--field-teaser-plain field-name-field-teaser-plain field-type-string-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">On November 11 and 12, 2015, over 50 Judges and Justices, Chief Justices, legal scholars, and lawyers gathered at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Brought together by John Levi, Chairman of the Legal Services Corporation; Martha Minow, Dean of the Harvard Law School; and Lance Liebman, former Dean of the Columbia Law School, the group discussed the nation’s failure to provide legal services for low-income Americans.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"><article class="article-teaser clearfix"> <div class="article-teaser__content"> <div class="inline article-teaser__date"> <div class="article__article-type article__article-type--teaser field field-node--field-article-type field-name-field-article-type field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Press Release</div> </div> </div> <span class="pipe">|</span> <div class="article__publication-date article__publication-date--teaser field field-node--field-publication-date field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><time datetime="2015-11-02T12:00:00Z">Nov 2, 2015</time> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h3 class="node-title article-teaser__title"> <a href="/news/inaugural-distinguished-morton-l-mandel-annual-public-lecture-american-academy-arts-and" rel="bookmark"><span class='field-wrapper article__title article__title--teaser'>Inaugural Distinguished Morton L. Mandel Annual Public Lecture at American Academy of Arts and Sciences Focuses on Access to U.S. Justice System</span></a> </h3> <div class="article-teaser__body"> <div class="article__teaser article__teaser--teaser field field-node--field-teaser-plain field-name-field-teaser-plain field-type-string-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item">Experts in five locations—Berkeley, Cambridge, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C.—to lead discussions about legal justice on November 11 as part of the Academy’s inaugural Distinguished Morton L. 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