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If you’re attending this year’s @ABAesq / @NLADA Equal Justice Conference, check out a few sessions that the Frontline Justice team will be a part of, which explore real challenges, emerging ideas, and practical solutions. ✨ May 14, 4:15-5:30 pm “State Court Leadership Views on Authorized Justice Workers” Panelists: Matthew Burnett, Alyx Mark, Elizabeth Chambliss, Rebecca Sandefur, Cassie Chambers Armstrong ✨ May 15, 10-11:15 am “Community-Based Legal Innovation: Research on Justice Worker Programs in Indian Country” Panelists: Sarah Carver, Cody Nelson, Matthew Burnett, Rebecca Sandefur ✨ May 15, 1:15-2:30 pm “Breaking Bread, Changing Futures: Community Solutions for Youth Justice” Panelists: Nikole Nelson, Alicia Mitchell-Mercer, Jim Copple, Rachel Royal ✨ May 15, 3-4:15 pm “Bridging the Justice Gap with Community Justice Workers: Lessons from Texas and Beyond” Panelists: Nikole Nelson, Cristian Sánchez, Bethany Carson In addition, we still have a few seats left for our pre-conference, “Supercharging Access to Justice from the Frontlines: A Community Justice Worker Convening,” on May 13. You can learn more about the speakers and get your ticket at zurl.co/fXE0c. #FrontlineJustice #Groundwork #CommunityJusticeWorkers #Share #Repost #AccessToJustice #LegalHelpForAll #LegalReform #LegalizeJusticeWork #EJC26

Democracy holds elections. But what makes them meaningful? In an era of polarization, algorithmic amplification, elite capture, and institutional distrust, my conversation with @tomginsburg asks a deeper question: what sustains constitutional democracy, and what erodes it from within?

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As Trump's return to office draws nearer, @ABFResearch affiliated scholar @CurlyProfessor looks to the past as a caution against pardons for Jan. 6 rioters in a new @TIMEHistory OpEd. Learn more: time.com/7204977/jan-6-…

🎙️ In our new podcast, @tomginsburg reflects on the potentially authoritarian nature of international law in its function of enabling relations between states. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/ye2wjdt4

📅Join us this January for the Access to Justice and AI: New Frontiers for Research, Policy, and Practice conference. This event explores AI's impact on civil justice access with interdisciplinary insights from researchers, policymakers, & practitioners! na.eventscloud.com/website/79050/…

🔖How does the carceral state shape rental housing? From tenant screenings to building code enforcement, #ABF Research Prof. Anna Reosti and Prof. @robinbartram1 explore rental housing as a liminal space shaped by a decentralized carceral presence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Are Seattle's tenant protection laws impacting "mom-and-pop" landlords and their tenants? @ABFResearch Prof. Anna Reosti explores this in her latest study, placing Seattle landlords at the center of the case. Read more through @SociusJournal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

@ABFResearch, in partnership with LSA and @NSF, is accepting applications for their Doctoral Fellowship in #Law and #Equality! Learn more here: bit.ly/DocFellow25 #LawAndSociety #SocialJustice #AccessToJustice

Want to learn more about the human side of Black legal history? @ABFResearch Prof. Dylan C. Penningroth shares seven texts exploring topics of community organization, critical race theory, and the transformation of American politics through Black lawyers. lithub.com/seven-essentia…

🔖@ABFResearch's @mjburnett & Rebecca Sandefur offer a framework to designing and evaluating community justice programs in the U.S. Learn about how community justice worker models have been serving low-income and excluded communities in the United States. bit.ly/justice-work

Check out @ABFResearch/@NorthwesternLaw Prof. Shari Diamond and @LIICornell Prof. @jurygirltweet in Vol. 20 of @AnnualReviews' Law and Social Science Journal. Their new article, Judgment by Peers: Lay Participation in Legal Decision Making, is out now!📔📔 bit.ly/lay-participat…

🚨Applications for @ABFResearch's 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) are now open! SURF offers undergrad students considering careers in law or social science to gain a hands-on learning experience for eight weeks during the summer. bit.ly/SURF25

🚨 Seeking a doctoral or postdoctoral program? Applications are now open for @ABFResearch's doc/postdoc fellowships! These fellowships support research in law, social science, and higher education, offering the opportunity to engage with our intellectual community.

SLS's @LegalDesignLab and Executive Director Margaret Hagan were mentioned by @AmericanLawyer in "K&L Gates Looks to Extend Gen AI Expertise to Access to Justice Fight." Read more here: stanford.io/3YIb9ZM

@ABFResearch/@NorthwesternLaw Professor @AjayKMehrotra dispels myths about tariffs in a new @Marketplace article. Rather than primarily impacting foreign exporters, tariffs frequently act as a tax on domestic consumers, leading to higher prices. Read More:marketplace.org/2024/11/04/tar…

It's Election Day! If you haven't voted and have last-minute questions, you'll find substantive and nonpartisan information at the ABA's Election Center: ambar.org/ehx2szuc

How might autocratic leaders be reshaping democratic systems across the globe? In @NYTmag, @amandataub examines their tactics, referencing frameworks from @ABFResearch/@UChicagoLaw Profs. @tomginsburg and Aziz Huq in How to Save a Constitutional Democracy. @UChicagoPress

As the 2024 U.S. presidential election nears, @ABFResearch/@NorthwesternLaw Professor @AjayKMehrotra explores the historical context of Trump’s tariff proposals in his latest article for @TIME.