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The Center for Justice, Law and Society links top social scientists with policymakers and practitioners in law, judicial administration and legal development.  CJLS faculty and students are drawn from multiple disciplines, all brought together by a common interest in making academe more useful to practitioners and enriching academic research with the experience of practice.  CJLS has three core objectives:

• Advancing research and scholarly debate on questions of law and legal behavior.
• Bridging the gap between academe and practice so that policymakers and practitioners are better informed by the insights of academic research, and academicians have a better understanding of how the concepts they study behave in practice.
• Assisting policymakers and practitioners by applying empirical research to practical problems in the field.