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IAALS is privileged to benefit from the expertise of a diverse board of advisors that includes judges, practitioners, and others committed to our mission: the continuous improvement of the civil justice system. At the close of 2012, we said farewell to two board members: Justice Patricio Serna and Sue Dosal. And, on...

IAALS was very sad to learn that U.S. District Judge Mark R. Kravitz passed away on Sunday , September 30, after battling Lou Gehrig's disease for over a year. Just last year, Judge Kravitz was the recipient of IAALS' Transparent Courthouse Award (now called the Rebuilding Justice Award) for providing leadership in...

IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, is pleased to welcome Karen J. Mathis , past president of the American Bar Association (“ABA”), as its Associate Executive Director, effective August 22, 2012. In the new role, Mathis will oversee IAALS’ operations,...

IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis, a graduate of Stanford University and Stanford Law School (BA '73, JD '76), was recently profiled in the Stanford Lawyer . The article takes a look at her career, including her years on the bench and her decision to leave the bench to found IAALS. Kourlis says of serving...

The Summer 2012 edition of Transparent Courthouse® Quarterly is now available. Transparent Courthouse® Quarterly is a quarterly newsletter reporting highlights from all IAALS initiatives. Sign up for Transparent Courthouse® Quarterly and other IAALS newsletters.

We are proud to announce that IAALS' Executive Director, Rebecca Love Kourlis , has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2012 John Marshall Award , presented by the American Bar Association Justice Center . Kourlis will formally accept the award in Chicago in August. The ABA Justice Center established the John...

This article originally appeared in the May edition of The Docket , a publication of the Denver Bar Association . Imagine a country without courts—where the legislative and executive branches of government hold sway. Imagine that the legislative branch makes the laws, and the executive branch has an administrative...

We are pleased to share our 2011 Annual Report , which highlights our work during the past year and also peeks forward into 2012. We are honored to call you a friend, and hope that our work continues to merit that relationship. Truly, the work of IAALS is a national project in which we are proud to play a part:...

2011 was a banner year. Working with partners and stakeholders around the country last year, we made significant advances on several key projects. We launched a new initiative, Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers , in a year when law schools are under more scrutiny than ever. We published Rebuilding Justice: Civil Courts in...

CNN's Bill Mears recently interviewed IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis about the challenges facing civil courts, including resource constraints, politicization and inaccessibility. Kourlis: The courts are overloaded, they're bogged down, they're politicized, and they're inaccessible. The basic structure...