Rebecca L. Sandefur

Arizona State University

Professor

Tempe, AZ 85287

United States

American Bar Foundation

Faculty Fellow

750 N. Lake Shore Drive

Chicago, IL 60611

United States

  • Arizona State University

  • American Bar Foundation

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1.

Access to Civil Justice and Race, Class, and Gender Inequality

Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 34, August 2008
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 01 May 2015
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University
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law, institutions, alternate dispute resolution, lawyers, procedural justice

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The Clinic Effect

Clinical Law Review, Vol. 16, p. 57, 2009, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 09/10 #8, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1498844
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 09 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2012
Rebecca L. Sandefur and Jeffrey Selbin
Arizona State University and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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Clinical legal education, pro bono, civic participation, public service

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What We Know and Need to Know about the Legal Needs of the Public

South Carolina Law Review, Vol. 67, p. 443-460, 2016
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 11 Apr 2017
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University
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The Importance of Doing Nothing: Everyday Problems and Responses of Inaction

TRANSFORMING LIVES: LAW AND SOCIAL PROCESS, Pascoe Pleasence, Alexy Buck, Nigel Balmer, eds., Stationery Office Books, 2007
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 May 2010
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University
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civil justice, access to justice, social class, income, legal services

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Improving the Lives of Individuals in Financial Distress Using a Randomized Control Trial: A Research and Clinical Approach

Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Vol. 20, N. 3 (Spring 2013)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2013
Dalié Jiménez, D. James Greiner, Lois R. Lupica and Rebecca L. Sandefur
University of California, Irvine School of Law, Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession, University of Maine School of Law and Arizona State University
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randomized control trial, RCT, debt collection, debt buyers, consumer law, bankruptcy, financial counseling, credit counseling, financial education, pro se, self-represented litigants, pro se materials, access to justice, empirical research, empirical methodology, clinical instruction

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Access Across America: First Report of the Civil Justice Infrastructure Mapping Project

Number of pages: 164 Posted: 21 Nov 2011
Rebecca L. Sandefur and Aaron Smyth
Arizona State University and American Bar Foundation
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Access to Justice, Legal Services, Legal Aid, Lawyers, Poverty, Disability, Veterans

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Beyond the Numbers: What We Know — and Should Know — About American Pro Bono

7 Harvard Law & Policy Review 83 (2013), UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 13-06
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Mar 2013
Scott L. Cummings and Rebecca L. Sandefur
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and Arizona State University
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legal aid access, public interest law, private sector, legal services

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Accessing Justice in the Contemporary USA: Findings from the Community Needs and Services Study

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Aug 2014
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University
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Access to Justice, Civil Justice

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Expanding the Empirical Study of Access to Justice

Wisconsin Law Review, Forthcoming, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2282498
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 22 Jun 2013
Catherine Albiston and Rebecca L. Sandefur
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Arizona State University
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Access to Justice, Civil Justice, Empirical Research, Sociolegal Studies

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Access to Justice: Classical Approaches and New Directions

ACCESS TO JUSTICE: SOCIOLOGY OF CRIME, LAW, AND DEVIANCE, Vol. 12, Rebecca L. Sandefur, ed., Emerald/JAI Press, April 2009
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 04 May 2010
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University
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access to justice, race, juries, civil justice, legal profession, tort reform

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The Fulcrum Point of Equal Access to Justice: Legal and Non-Legal Institutions of Remedy

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 42, pp. 949-978, Summer 2009
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 May 2010
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University
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Access To Justice, Legal Services, Inequality, Social Class

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Money Isn't Everything: Understanding Moderate Income Households' Use of Lawyers' Services

Rebecca L. Sandefur. 2012. “Money Isn’t Everything: Understanding Moderate Income Households’ Use of Lawyers’ Services.” In Middle Income Access to Justice, edited by Anthony Duggan, Lorne Sossin and Michael Trebilcock. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 11 Apr 2017
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University
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Roles beyond Lawyers: Summary, Recommendations and Research Report of an Evaluation of the New York City Court Navigators Program and Its Three Pilot Projects

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 11 Apr 2017
Rebecca L. Sandefur and Thomas Clarke
Arizona State University and National Center for State Courts
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The Impact of Counsel: An Analysis of Empirical Evidence

Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 51-96, 2010
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Oct 2011
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University
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lawyers, access to justice, right to counsel, legal aid, civil justice

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Lawyers' Pro Bono Service and American-Style Civil Legal Assistance

Law and Society Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 79-112, March 2007
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 May 2010
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University
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Pro Bono, Legal Aid, Legal Services, Access to Justice, Lawyers

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Preliminary Evaluation of the Washington State Limited License Legal Technician Program

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Apr 2017
Thomas Clarke and Rebecca L. Sandefur
National Center for State Courts and Arizona State University
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Designing the Competition: A Future of Roles beyond Lawyers? The Case of the USA

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 67, p. 1467-1492, June 2016
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 Apr 2017
Rebecca L. Sandefur and Thomas Clarke
Arizona State University and National Center for State Courts
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All Together Now: Building a Shared Access to Justice Research Framework for Theoretical Insight and Actionable Intelligence

Forthcoming, this is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Oñati Socio-legal Series (ISSN 2079-5971, http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/index) following peer review.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Nov 2022
Rebecca L. Sandefur and Matthew Burnett
Arizona State University and American Bar Foundation
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Access to justice; effectiveness; sustainability; scaling

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Apples and Oranges: An International Comparison of the Public's Experience of Justiciable Problems and the Methodological Issues Affecting Comparative Study

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 13, Issue 1, pp. 50-93, 2016
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 Feb 2016
Pascoe Pleasence, Nigel Balmer and Rebecca L. Sandefur
University College London, Victoria Law Foundation and Arizona State University
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Legal Advice from Nonlawyers: Consumer Demand, Provider Quality, and Public Harms

Sandefur, R.L., 2020. Legal advice from nonlawyers: consumer demand, provider quality, and public harms. Stan. JCR & CL, 16, p.283.
Posted: 07 Nov 2022
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University

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access to justice, nonlawyers, unauthorized practice of law, legal advice

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Access to Justice and Legal Services Regulatory Reform

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 18, pp. 27-42, 2022
Posted: 21 Oct 2022
Rebecca L. Sandefur and Emily Denne
Arizona State University and Arizona State University (ASU)

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Elements of Professional Expertise: Understanding Relational and Substantive Expertise through Lawyers' Impact

American Sociological Review, Vol. 80(5), p. 909-933, 2015
Posted: 19 Apr 2017
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University

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Lawyers, Professions, Expertise, Access to Justice, Courts

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Bridging the Gap: Rethinking Outreach for Greater Access to Justice

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 4, p. 721-40, 2015
Posted: 19 Apr 2017
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University

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Legal Needs, Civil Justice, Legal Profession

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Commentary on Carroll Seron's Presidential Address: Embrace Disciplinarity and Talk across It

Law and Society Review, Vol. 50(1), p. 34-39, 2016
Posted: 19 Apr 2017
Rebecca L. Sandefur
Arizona State University

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