Connecting evidence to people‑centred justice
Thank you for checking in on our International Access to Justice Forum program page.
We're looking forward to hosting you alongside other global leaders in access to justice at the Forum in October and we will be posting the program details here as soon as they are finalised.
Theme: Evidence and Action
At a time of growing complexity and pressure on justice systems, the Forum focuses on the dynamic relationship between research and action.
Distinguished by its empirical and outcomes-focused orientation, the Forum will examine what works, why it works, and how evidence can be translated into real-world impact across different legal and social contexts.The Forum also recognises that action itself generates evidence.
Learning from implementation, experimentation, and practice-based insight is central to building smarter systems, improving outcomes, and avoiding well-intentioned but ineffective reforms.
Program topics
The program will contribute to improved access to justice by bridging evidence and action across four topics.
Empirical research for access to justice: evidence for what works
- Measuring and methods to understand legal need
- How people understand, recognise and respond to legal problems
- Public legal education and information
- Inaccessible justice
- From research and practice to action
Justice systems and institutions
- Legal assistance funding, sustainability and services
- Court and tribunal access, performance and reform
- Clinical legal education: pedagogy, law schools and legal need
- Regulation and legal market challenges
- Institutional accountability and system performance
- Rights frameworks, state obligations and monitoring access to justice
Justice in a Changing World
- Legal technology for access to justice
- Artificial intelligence and algorithmic justice
- Legal innovation and exclusion
- Climate change, natural disasters and legal need
- Colonial legacies and structural inequality
- Justice, rights and political change
People-Centred Justice
- People-centred and participatory research and practice
- Community justice and legal empowerment
- First Nations justice and self-determination
- Social determinants and distribution of legal need
- Justice partnerships, integrated and multidisciplinary services
Session formats
As the Forum brings together people with diverse experiences and perspectives, we will support inclusive engagement, discussion and reflection across research, policy and practice.
Register at Early Bird prices
You can now (until July 31) purchase a registration at our Early Bird rate. We're looking forward to hosting you alongside other global leaders in access to justice, in Melbourne's Docklands precinct.
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