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  • Episode 43: Navigating Child Custody Challenges From Behind Bars

    Episode 43: Navigating Child Custody Challenges From Behind Bars
    2026/04/06
    This week's "Student Voices" episode of Proof Over Precedent explores access to justice issues for incarcerated parents in the child welfare system. HLS student Mia Robertson looks at the process of removing a child from a home, working toward permanent placement and/or reunification, and the numerous barriers an incarcerated parent faces in custody cases, from an inability to show up for in-person hearings to a lack of reliable communication with an attorney (if they have counsel representation at all).
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    29 分
  • Episode 42: Can Financial (and Other) Support Help Reduce Child Welfare Involvement in Neglect Cases?

    Episode 42: Can Financial (and Other) Support Help Reduce Child Welfare Involvement in Neglect Cases?
    2026/03/30
    This week, Proof Over Precedent speaks with Melody Webb, Founder and Executive Director of the Mother's Outreach Network, a Washington, DC-based racial justice and anti-poverty organization that the Access to Justice Lab partnered with in its Mother Up pre-pilot study. Webb shares her vision for the study—which looks at providing Black indigent mothers with guaranteed income to support their children in an effort to reduce child welfare agency involvement—and offers perspective on the preliminary findings from the pilot.
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    24 分
  • Episode 41: How Evidence-Based Research Could Transform the Child Welfare System

    Episode 41: How Evidence-Based Research Could Transform the Child Welfare System
    2026/03/23
    A2J Lab Director and Professor Jim Greiner sat down with five A2J Lab staff members to discuss "Mother Up", a DC guaranteed income pre-pilot program with Mothers Outreach Network for Black mothers with recent CFSA involvement. The privately funded program explored how feasible it would be to conduct a larger study on the subject of guaranteed income, but this episode of Proof Over Precedent looks into why the Lab got involved with the program, how we gathered and analyzed data to apply to future evidence-leading studies, and what we're seeing with results so far.
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    57 分
  • Episode 40: EmPwR Study–How Financial Support Means Family Support

    Episode 40: EmPwR Study–How Financial Support Means Family Support
    2026/03/16
    The Empower Parents with Resources Study is the largest randomized control trial of the effect of unrestricted cash gifts on child maltreatment in the United States. Researchers aim to find out if a reduction in financial stress equals a reduction in child welfare involvement. In this week's Proof Over Precedent episode, HLS J.D. candidate Julia Saltzman interviews researcher William Schneider, who explains the broad impact the study may have on families, caseworkers, and child welfare policy.
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    24 分
  • Episode 39: On the Medical-Legal Collaboration Pioneering Child Welfare Solutions

    Episode 39: On the Medical-Legal Collaboration Pioneering Child Welfare Solutions
    2026/03/09
    If poverty can sometimes appear as neglect within a family, would better social and legal support help prevent unnecessary child welfare involvement? An Access to Justice Lab ongoing randomized controlled trial aims to find out. This episode gives a research partner's point of view to the trial.
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    55 分
  • Episode 38: Fair or Foul--AI in Medicine and Law

    Episode 38: Fair or Foul--AI in Medicine and Law
    2026/03/03
    In this week's Proof Over Precedent episode, HLS J.D. candidate Strong Ma discusses how public perceptions of fairness influence the adoption of AI and algorithms in medicine and law, two industries with varying levels of support and trust in AI. The podcast includes interviews with HLS Professors Jim Greiner and Jon Hanson weighing in on AI's strengths and shortcomings in law, particularly as it compares to human decision making.
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    27 分
  • Episode 37: Navigating Pretrial Risk Assessments and Cash Bail Reform

    Episode 37: Navigating Pretrial Risk Assessments and Cash Bail Reform
    2026/02/23
    Is ending cash bail a path to a fairer justice system? California attempted this route in 2018 with its SB10, which would have ended cash bail statewide and replaced it with pretrial risk assessment. The effort could potentially have avoided a two-tiered, wealth-based system, but it fell short with voters. This "Student Voices" episode of Proof Over Precedent dives into the debate over cash bail, what went wrong with the SB 10 campaign, and lessons for future bail reform efforts.
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    25 分
  • Episode 36: Record Clearing Insights: How Data Can Impact Policy

    Episode 36: Record Clearing Insights: How Data Can Impact Policy
    2026/02/17
    This episode of Proof Over Precedent looks at predictive modeling research that could be used alongside policy research to answer the question, "What can we do to increase the number of criminal records cleared?" Researchers examined existing data on automatic record sealing in Pennsylvania and petition-based expungements in Kansas and adjusted criteria that could contribute to more effective record clearing. In the process, they made surprising discoveries on the state and future of criminal record clearances.
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    40 分