Schedule

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UCI Law Courtyard and California Room, 401 E. Peltason Dr.

Panel 1A: Framing the Movement for Regulatory Reform (EDU 1111) 
This panel will explore key issues in deregulation: identifying consumer risk and protections; understanding the potential and regulatory requirements of legal tech; and consolidating the role of lawyers and professional organizations.
Moderator: Bruce Green (Fordham Law School, New York, NY)

• David Freeman Engstrom and Graham Ambrose (Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, USA)
• Drew Simshaw (Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, WA, USA)
• Eli Wald (University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, CO, USA)

Panel 1B: The New Judging: Adapting to New Court Users (EDU 1131)  
The traditional vision of the adversarial system, with experienced attorneys on each side presenting their evidence at trial, is seldom the case in many courts. This panel discussion will address how the work of judging must change in response to this reality to improve the opportunity for substantive and procedural justice.
Moderator: Nigel Balmer (Victoria Law Foundation)

• Bonnie Rose Hough (National Self-Represented Litigation Network, Sausalito, CA, USA)
• Justice Laurie D. Zelon, Ret. (Judicate West, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
• Judge Mark. A. Juhas (Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Panel 1C: Subversive Lawyers and Lawyering (MPAA 420)  
This panel discussion will highlight the potential for subversive lawyers and lawyering to change the field of legal services provision and will consider ways to nurture these efforts.
Moderator: Katie Robertson (Stateless Legal Clinic, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Vic, Australia)

• Swethaa Ballakrishnen (University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA, USA)
• Ben Barton (University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, TN, USA)
• Russell Pearce (Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY, USA)
• Carole Silver (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL, USA)

Panel 2A: New Insights and Approaches in Legal Needs Study (EDU 1111)
This panel will showcase findings from new legal needs surveys and highlight novel methodologies for measuring legal needs.
Moderator: Logan Cornett (Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, Denver, CO, USA)

• Nigel Balmer and Hugh McDonald (Victoria Law Foundation, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
• Bryce Stoliker and Brea Lowenberger (University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada)

Panel 2B: Access to Justice in Indian Country (EDU 1131)
This panel will interrogate issues of access to justice for Native Americans, outlining challenges for legal services in creating more responsive forms of justice.
Moderator: Lynne Haultain (Victoria Law Foundation)

• Kirsten Matoy Carlson (Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA)
• Michele Statz (University of Minnesota Medical/University of Minnesota Law School, Duluth, MN, USA)
• Heather Tanana (University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA, USA)

Panel 2C: Pedagogical Choices: Law Schools and Legal Clinics (MPAA 420)
This panel brings together perspectives on how legal education can incorporate access to justice issues within the curriculum and balance social justice and educational needs. 
Moderator: Benjamin Barton (University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, TN, USA)

• Natasha Brown (University of Manitoba-Faculty of Law, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
• Michael Kagan (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Law Vegas, NV, US)
• Spencer Rand (Temple University, Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Panel 2D: Barriers to Justice: Institutional Perspectives (MPAA 430) 
This panel considers barriers to justice from an institutional perspective. Whether focused on insurance companies, international organizations, or national governments, the presentations in this session evaluate how institutions help and hinder efforts to vindicate rights and resolve disputes.
Moderator: Paul Prettitore (World Bank, Vienna, Austria)

• Shauhin Talesh (University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA, USA)
• Shelom Velasco (Autonoma University, Santiago, Chile)
• Ari Ezra Waldman (University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA, USA)

Panel 3A: Alternative Justice Models (EDU 1111)
This panel will explore a range of alternative justice models, particularly where non-lawyers are empowered to provide alternative services to communities. Presentations will address key challenges and achievements at individual and system levels as well as the sustainability and scalability of approaches.
Moderator: Lynne Haultain (Victoria Law Foundation)

• Matthew Burnett and Rebecca L. Sandefur (American Bar Foundation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA)
• Tshenolo Tshoaedi (Community Advice Offices South Africa, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa)
• Christine Cimini (University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA, USA)

Panel 3B: Professional Regulation: Past, Present, and Future (EDU 1131)
This panel will investigate the past and present of professional regulation to help define the way ahead
Moderator: Jessica Steinberg (The George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C., USA)

• Cayley Balser (Innovation for Justice - i4J, Tucson, AZ, USA)
• Ellyn Rosen (American Bar Association, Chicago, IL, USA)
• James Stone (Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, USA)

Panel 3C: Building the Evidence Base (MPAA 420)
This panel is focused on enhancing the evidence base to inform justice policy. From US state court data to national legal needs assessments to cross-national measures of legal aid, these presentations will highlight the need for evidence to guide court practice, national policy, and global development initiatives.
Moderator: Alyx Mark (American Bar Foundation and Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA)

• Lester Bird (Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington, D.C., USA)
• Paul Pretitore (World Bank, Vienna, Austria)
• Hugh McDonald (Victoria Law Foundation, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

Panel 3D: Law School Clinics and A2J (MPAA 430)
This panel will explore differing law school clinic models and consider how they can address specific unmet legal needs and enhance learning through working with different communities.
Moderator: Colleen Shanahan (Columbia Law School New York, NY USA)

• Michelle Waite (Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK)
• Katie Robertson (Stateless Legal Clinic, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
• Luz E. Herrera (Texas A&M School of Law, Fort Worth, TX, USA)

Session 4

Panel 4A: Accessing Legal Information (EDU 1111)
This panel centers on lay access to legal information. Presentations will offer new findings on the public’s use of search engines to access legal information, the potential for community leaders to serve as information providers, and the provision of information as a justice intervention.
Moderator: Suzie Forell (Health Justice Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)

• Nora Al Haider (Stanford Legal Design Lab, Stanford, CA, USA)
• Les Jacobs (Ontario Tech University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
• Katia Lallo and Esset Kahsay (Moonee Valley Legal Service, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

Panel 4B: Reports from the Sandbox (EDU 1131)
This panel discussion will present preliminary findings from the Utah regulatory sandbox and consider alternative regulatory structures and forms of legal service provision taking shape in other states.
Moderator: Hugh McDonald (Victoria Law Foundation)

• Logan Cornett (Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, Denver, CO, USA)
• Jessica Bednarz (Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, Denver, CO, USA)
• Lucy Ricca (Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, USA)
• James Teufel (Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, O'Fallon, IL, USA)

Panel 4C: Dispute Processing, Coalition Building, and Legal Development (MPAA 420)
This panel considers ways to serve individual legal needs while also building community and strategic partnerships, as well as the potential implications for law reform and legal precedent.
Moderator: Roger Michalski (University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, OK, USA)

• Jane Stoever (University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA, USA)
• Jérémy Boulanger-Bonnelly (McGill University Faculty of Law, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
• Melanie Schleiger (Victoria Legal Aid, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

Panel 4D: Community Navigators on the Frontlines (MPAA 430)
This panel discussion will present new findings from a multi-state effort to train and deploy community navigators to help families experiencing poverty identify legal issues, access legal resources, and get critical support.
Moderator: Donna Askew (Eastern Community Legal Center, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

• Katie Dilks (Oklahoma Access To Justice Foundation, Tulsa, OK, USA)
• Kate Crowley Richardson (Legal Link, Oakland, CA, USA)
• Tanina Rostain (Georgetown Law Center, Washington, DC, USA)
• Sacha Steinberger (Legal Link, Oakland, CA, USA)

Panel 5A: Engaging Justice Stakeholders (EDU 1111)
This panel will focus on the necessary but challenging work of engaging key stakeholders in support of justice initiatives. Presentations will highlight the need for clear theories of change, describe new insights from a multi-jurisdictional evaluation of implementation efforts, and reflect on the challenges of establishing health justice partnerships.
Moderator: Matthew Burnett (American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL, USA)

• Margaret Hagan (Stanford Legal Design Lab, Stanford, CA, USA)
• Michele Leering (Community Advocacy & Legal Centre/Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada)
• Natalia Antolak-Saper (Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

Panel 5B: Justice in Adjudicative Settings (EDU 1131)
This panel addresses current challenges and potential solutions for achieving access to justice in adjudicative settings, whether state trial courts or administrative proceedings.
Moderator: Bonnie Rose Hough (Self-Represented Litigant Network (National Self-Represented Litigation Network, Sausalito, CA, USA)

• Bruce A. Green (Fordham Law School, New York, NY)
• Claire Johnson Raba (University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL, USA)
• Amy Widman (Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ, USA)

Panel 5C: Courts and Justice Policies: Obstacles and Solutions (MPAA 420)
This panel explores the role of courts and justice policy in promoting and inhibiting access to processes and just resolution of problems.
Moderator: Scott Dodson (University of California Law, San Francisco, CA, USA)

• Sayid Bnefsi (University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA)
• Colleen Shanahan (Columbia Law School, New York, NY, USA)
• Jessica Steinberg (The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC, USA)

Panel 5D: Survey Experiments: Understanding Perceptions of Justice (MPAA 430)
This panel will present experimental work investigating attitudes toward and knowledge of legal processes and problem resolution. This includes analysis of barriers of entry to the legal service market, tendency to identify ‘legal’ problems and seek assistance, and attitudes towards settlement and resolution.
Moderator: Nigel Balmer (Victoria Law Foundation)

• Gilat Juli Bachar (Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
• Ji Li (University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA, USA)
• Emily Taylor Poppe (University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA, USA)

Panel 6A: Creating Integrated, Customized, and Accessible Legal Services (EDU 1111)
This panel will explore opportunities and challenges associated with identifying and tailoring services to need.
Moderator: Rebecca Sandefur (American Bar Foundation and Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA)

• Suzie Forell (Health Justice Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
• Melissa Martino and Richard Hodge (Magistrate’s Court, Victoria, Australia)
• Chalita Ugrinovski and Donna Askew Eastern Community Legal Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

Panel 6B: Access to Justice in US Federal Courts (EDU 1131)
This panel will offer new findings on the extent and role of federal court self-help materials, the prevalence of partial pro-se litigants, and the role of federal diversity jurisdiction in understanding and addressing access to justice.
Moderator: Emily Taylor Poppe (University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA, USA)

• Scott Dodson (University of California Law, San Francisco, CA, USA)
• Jona Goldschmidt (Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)
• Roger Michalski (University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, OK, USA)

Panel 6C: Court Innovation in the Age of Covid (MPAA 420)
This panel will reflect on the range of innovations adopted by courts in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and consider what our new normal means for inequalities in access to justice. 
Moderator: Amy Widman (Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ, USA)

• Alyx Mark (American Bar Foundation/Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA)
• Richardo Lillo (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile)