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Juliet-Nil Uraz
London School of Economics / Policy in Practice
Research Fellow
Biography
Juliet-Nil Uraz is an applied economist working at the intersection of access to justice, social protection and inequality. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the National Center for Access to Justice at Fordham Law School in New York. Her research builds data evidence on the economic costs of unmet legal needs and the role of legal assistance in reducing poverty. She collaborates with frontline legal services to design impact evaluations and advises on AI adoption in the US and the UK.
At Policy in Practice, a UK social-policy technology company, she led a Legal Education Foundation project that established the UK's first linkage between legal casework and administrative benefits data, documenting sustained improvements in household income and poverty reductions over two years.
She has collaborated with the UK Legal Aid Practitioners Group to quantify the hidden workload of legal aid lawyers, and with the American Bar Foundation's Justice Data Observatory to survey access to justice initiatives globally. Her work with ODI Global and the OECD on the Justice Financing Framework examines budgeting practices, data gaps, and the costs and potential of technology in frontline justice services. She also co-develops the World Legal Aid Database, tracing public spending on legal aid across countries.
She recently submitted her doctoral thesis at the London School of Economics, examining the development of legal aid in England and Wales and the effects of austerity-driven cuts on evictions and mortality. She was previously a Visiting Research Fellow at Opportunity Insights at Harvard University.
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