Tools, research, and programs advancing access to justice through technology.
Funding and mentorship for access to justice projects
Grants for Canadian law students and graduate students to pursue law and tech projects that support access to justice using A2AJ datasets.
Law students or graduate students at Canadian institutions.
$10,000 grants
Applications due May 15, 2026 for the 2026–27 cohort.
Open-access research
We share the results of our projects in open-access academic venues to help build enthusiasm for partnerships between legal scholars and technologists.
Outlines the history of advances and setbacks in open legal data in Canada, and introduces the A2AJ's Canadian Legal Data dataset.
An empirical examination of deportation from Canada for national security reasons.
Uses LLMs to extract data about Federal Court stay of removal decisions.
Evaluating AI models on Canadian law
Benchmarks to evaluate AI models on tasks involving Canadian law, focusing on topics that impact marginalized and low-income people.
Tests for statutory interpretation and case analysis.
Does the model cite real cases correctly?
Distinguishing Canadian law from US law.
A2AJBench-Ontario to come.
Tools built with community partners
We're building open-source prototype tools in collaboration with legal clinics, law journals, and advocacy organizations. These projects demonstrate how A2AJ datasets can be applied to real access-to-justice challenges.
A platform to search refugee documents and caselaw from the Immigration and Refugee Board's National Documentation Package.
Automated redaction of identifying information in court documents, built with the Refugee Law Lab.
Automated citation checking for a law journal, verifying case references against the A2AJ dataset.
Data tools for a legal clinic to analyze landlord-tenant decision patterns and support advocacy work.