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CJLS researchers are engaged in several projects that connect academe to practice.  These include:

• An evaluation of the cost of federal death penalty cases.
• An evaluation of the effects of increased court security.
• Comparative research on the treatment of citizenship and immigration cases in Canada.
• A cross-national study of the practice of extraordinary rendition.
• A systematic, comparative survey of lawyers and law enforcement officers on the trade-off between civil liberties and homeland security.
• An ethnographic analysis of sociolegal change in Bolivia.
• Assisting law enforcement agencies to implement the electronic recording of interrogations and identification procedures to speed convictions and prevent errors.