Innovation for Justice (i4J) is a legal innovation law housed at both University of Arizona College of Law and University of Utah David Eccles School of Business. i4J is uniquely positioned in the two states that have opened the door to legal regulatory reform, and is the only lab to design pilot projects that leverage regulatory reform to legally empower underrepresented populations. Based on four years of research, i4J has developed an actionable, replicable framework for working with and within communities to stand up new regulatory reform innovations that increase access to legal services for community members experiencing social justice problems like domestic violence, housing instability, and debt collection. This panel shared how that framework can be used to design, test, and launch pilot programs that leverage regulatory reform to equip non-lawyer community advocates in the non-profit sector to provide upstream, trauma-informed, limited-scope legal advice to the low-income community members they already serve.
Speakers:
Stacy Butler - Innovation for Justice, Director
Cayley Balser - Innovation for Justice, Community-Engaged Research Operations Lead
Tate Richardson - i4J
Ann Timmer - Arizona Supreme Court, Hon.
Anna Harper-Guerrero - Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse, Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer
