EVERYDAY LEGALITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE
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We study the relationships between people and law, and people's ability to solve problems (or not) through law.  CRN 39 focuses on formal and informal law, civil law and criminal law, and law on the books and law in action. We are interested in how law shapes social life and material circumstances. We study how people rely on law and legal categories to shape and explain their behavior, and the ways people imagine, use, evade, or ignore legal processes and ideas. The Everyday Legality and Access to Justice CRN spans several areas of law and society research, including:  
 
  • Access to justice
  • Legal consciousness
  • Legal cynicism​
  • Policing
  • ​Administrative burden
  • Lawyer effectiveness
  • ​Courts
  • ​​Legal pluralism​
  • ​​Criminal justice processes
  • Regulatory reform of the legal profession
  • Legal empowerment
  • ​Legal capability
  • Rights consciousness​
 

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