AAJ Robert L. Habush Endowment
The Endowment supports judicial and academic education programs, innovative scholarship and research, and public education to enhance understanding and dialogue on civil justice and the right to trial by jury.
The Endowment Board meets quarterly to provide grants in support of civil justice to the National Civil Justice Institute, judicial and academic education programs and symposiums, academic scholarship, and public education.
Symposiums and programs Supported by the Endowment
Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice
Hosted by Stanford Law School, this webinar series features four 90 minutes discussions, with panelists drawing from a variety backgrounds. Topics include Legal Tech and Access to Justice and Access to Data as Access to Justice. Learn more here.
Police Misconduct and Qualified Immunity: Reimagining ‘We The People’
Hosted by Thurgood Marshall School of Law, this day-long virtual conference focused on the disproportionate use of force by police against black people, remedies for people injured by police violence and what can be done to make them better, and how the Constitution must be reimagine to protect everyone. Learn more here.
COVID-19 and the Courts, hosted by the RAND Corporation
On October 1, 2020, the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ) and the Berkeley Law Civil Justice Research Initiative (CJRI ) have assembled a distinguished group of attorneys, judges, and scholars to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the court system. Panelists included Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law), Paula Hannaford-Agor (Director of the Center for Juries Studies, National Center for State Courts), and Bridget Mary McCormack (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan) to explore the rapidly changing legal environment. Access the recording here.
Civil Justice Research Initiative (CJRI) Webinar Series
CJRI is hosting an ongoing 30-minute webinar series on civil legal issues during covid-19. Past topics have included:
- Attacks on the judiciary
- Translation of qualitative assessments into quantitative judgments
- Effects of ideology, race and gender on the voting behavior of judges when members of three-judge panels
- Obligation of employers to provide safe work environments for essential workers
- Impact of the pandemic on inequality
View upcoming and past programs here.
Robert L. Habush
Wisconsin trial lawyer Robert L. Habush, Chairman of the Board of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C., committed his career to standing up for individuals and holding even the largest corporations responsible for the injuries and deaths caused by dangerous, defective products. A champion for civil justice, Bob led the effort to establish and grow AAJ’s endowment, ensuring a future for research, education, and scholarship on civil justice issues and the protection of fundamental rights.
The AAJ Endowment serves as a grant-making foundation, carefully and strategically providing grants to AAJ, its associated foundations, law schools, academics, and think tanks to preserve and protect the civil justice system.
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