Research and Analysis
Research Focus Areas
Judicial Violations
Investigating patterns of systemic violations in court systems and their impact on vulnerable populations.
- Access to justice barriers
- Discrimination patterns
- Procedural violations
- Human rights violations
Accommodation Studies
Analyzing limitations and effectiveness of court accommodations and developing best practices for implementation.
- Disability accommodations
- Fundamental alterations
- Administration of justice
Design and Policy Analysis
Evaluating design flaws and existing policies and proposing reforms based on international human rights standards.
- Design defects and deadlocks
- Policy effectiveness
- Reform recommendations
- Implementation strategies
Current Research Projects
Court disability accommodations fail by design
A critical analysis of the failure by design of court disability accommodation based on a 7-year study of 10 representative state and federal courts.
Cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and torture of litigants are legalized by the American judiciary
Judges will intentionally inflict severe pain and suffering upon disabled and pro se litigants for the purpose of discriminating and coercing them to obey invariant and harmful court rules, procedures and policies, and will encourage and rewards third parties acting under color of their authority to also inflcit severe pain and suffering, publicly displaying cruelty, inhumanity and degradation of the litigant, with impunity, and will create facts to justify their acts, which are absolutely prohibited by the jus cogens of customary international law.
The American judiciary systemically violate Article VI and human rights treaties
Independent investigation into state and federal judges' obedience to human rights treaties demonstrates major systemic violations, also confirmed by international human rights authorities.
Disability laws are selectively unrecognized by judges
Disability accommodation is not provided in federal and state courts according to the ADA or the Rehabilitation Act or the CRPD
Deadlocks and design flaws in the American judicial process
The design of the US Constitution, and the evolution of the judicial process in American courts suffers from fundamental flaws, and deadlocks.
The missing component of US human rights compliance
The IAJ must exist and perform its functions required for the US implementation of human rights treaties independently of each branch of government.
Impotence of judicial ethics in preventing, prohibiting and punishing human rights violations by judges.
Judges are required to violate the human rights of pro se and disabled litigants, and will ignore judicial ethics, emboldened by their immunities and the judicial legalization of malicious and corrupt judicial conduct.
Common patterns of judicial retaliation for opposition to prohibited acts
Judges will retaliate if their prohibited acts are exposed and opposed. These retaliations constitute further prohibited acts that are endorsed by their peers and by reviewing bodies.