Resources

Shared knowledge, best practices, and field guides

As we work in the justice innovation space, we have built some essential knowledge on strategies, methods, and best practices that can be of use to others who are working in this space.

We share them with you, so that you can improve your ability to create a more fair, accessible, and usable legal system.

Reading List on Justice Innovation

Our Lab has a library of academic articles & practitioner-oriented reports about how to design, scope, and test better interventions in the civil justice system.

It includes reports on legal needs, evaluation instruments, studies of what works, and proposals of the top ideas to reform the justice system.

Find Resources to Design & Research Justice Innovations

Filing Fairness Toolkit

This interactive guide from the Filing Fairness Project at Stanford can guide courts and their partners through improving their forms, their filing, their efiling systems, and other policies that affect people’s ability to find and use forms.

Use the Filing Fairness Toolkit here.

Evaluation methods for justice innovations

Evaluation methods can help us create more effective legal help interventions. And they can make sure that the intervention is working as intended.

On this page, you can find resources, experiments, and case studies on user testing, pilot evaluation, and other outcomes research on justice innovations.

Court Forms Evaluation & Design Guide

Do you want to make your court or government forms more user-friendly, accessible, and impactful?

Use our evaluation rubrics & design guides to improve how your paper, pdf, or interactive forms work for your court users.