Our Mission

The Inclusive Juries Project (IJP) leads educational, policy, and research initiatives aimed at promoting fair and inclusive juries in North Carolina and throughout the United States. IJP partners with scholars, advocates, court actors, and students to understand and address underrepresentative jury pools, discriminatory jury selection, the influence of bias on jury trials, and the waning exercise of the Sixth Amendment right to a fair and impartial jury. These problems threaten the accuracy and fairness of criminal justice outcomes, violate the constitutional rights of defendants and jurors, and undermine the integrity and legitimacy of our system of justice. IJP addresses these problems collaboratively with innovative, evidence-based solutions.