JUSTICE BY ALL: Revitalizing Civic Engagement in the Judicial System

Apr 22

Julia Lindpaintner’s thesis work was inspired by her own experience of serving on a grand jury in Manhattan during the summer of 2016. It profoundly changed her understanding of the judicial system, and in particular, the way she saw her role in it. “My mental model shifted,” Julia states. She further explains, “Instead of seeing the judicial system as an autonomous force over which I had no influence, I felt viscerally the way in which we, as citizens, are collectively responsible for the system and the outcomes it produces.”

“I felt viscerally the way in which we, as citizens, are collectively responsible for the system, and the outcomes it produces.”

This insight inspired her thesis title, “Justice by All.” She devoted her work to exploring ways to revitalize civic engagement in the judicial system by asking the question, “How can I, as an individual, contribute to more just outcomes?”