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
On-going Research
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.
Current Research
Identifying patterns in jurisprudence in the state and federal courts which constitute prohibited judicial acts.
Systemic Discrimination in Court Accommodations
Investigation into patterns of discrimination in providing court accommodations for persons with disabilities across multiple jurisdictions.
Systemic human rights violations by judges
Patterns of violations of human rights treaties, principles, and the jus cogens of customary international law by judges and courts.
Patterns of judicial intent to commit prohibited acts
Classification of judicial bias and judicial human rights violations and discrimination based on disability in the courts to derive common ways in which judges demonstrate intent to commit prohibited acts.
Access to Justice Barriers
Examining systematic barriers preventing individual access to justice, remedies, relief, and punishment of human rights violations.
Absence or failure of "alternative mechanisms" promised by Congress to justify non-self-executing human rights treaties: Available means of stopping and punishing systemic judicial prohibited acts, and their effectiveness
Examining ways and means to prevent, stop, and punish judicial human rights violations and discrimination in the courts, and comparison with prevention, abatement, and punishment directly under human rights treaties.
Judicial legalization of prohibited acts
Exanining the ways in which judges legalize ethics violations, discrimination, and violations of human rights of litigants.
Posner: Self-represented litigants are treated "like a kind of trash not worth the time" of a judge
Investigating the findings of a recognized legal scholar and federal appellate judge Richard Posner that pro se litigants are subjected to discrimination and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by judges. Particular attention to the fates of self-represented litigants in family courts, and to disabled litigants throughout the United States.
Conflicts and deadlocks in the judicial process in the United States of America
Exanining design flaws and defects in government and in the judicial process.
Patterns of inequivalence of human rights treaties and domestic statutes
Examining the domestic implementation of human rights treaties and the domestic observance of absolute prohibitions of customary international law.
Need for reform of the judicial process required in the United States of America
Evidence gathering and analysis of the reform required for establishing Justice and delivering a judicial process that is consistent with human rights laws and principles.
Past Research
Federal Court ADA Compliance Study
Comprehensive review of ADA compliance across federal district courts, revealing systematic failures in accommodation provision.
State Court Disability Discrimination Patterns
Analysis of disability discrimination patterns in state court systems, documenting widespread violations of federal disability rights laws.
Judicial Ethics Enforcement Mechanisms
Investigation into the effectiveness of judicial ethics enforcement mechanisms in addressing human rights violations by judges.
Pro Se Litigant Treatment Analysis
Comprehensive study of how pro se litigants are treated in court systems, documenting patterns of discrimination and denial of due process.