Emily Taylor Poppe
By Courtesy, Professor of Sociology
Faculty Director, The Initiative for Inclusive Civil Justice
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession
Expertise:
Access to Justice, Wills & Trusts, the Legal Profession, Civil Procedure, Law & Society, Inequality and Law
Background:
Prof. Taylor Poppe is an interdisciplinary empirical scholar whose research is focused on inequalities in access to civil justice. Her work investigates the origins of civil legal problems and their paths toward resolution, as well as the role of legal actors and institutions in shaping these processes. She has investigated variation in both formal and informal access to legal counsel and has also assessed the effect of legal representation on case outcomes. In other scholarship, she has evaluated how legal education, the regulation of the legal profession, legal technology, and institutional design might enhance equality in access to justice. Finally, in a third stream of scholarship, she evaluates estates and trusts law from an access to justice perspective, offering both legal reforms and policy interventions to enhance equality under the laws governing succession. Her research has appeared in both peer-reviewed journals and law reviews, including Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, UC Davis Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and other journals.
Prof. Taylor Poppe serves as the Faculty Director of The Initiative for Inclusive Civil Justice. She is also co-chair of the New Legal Realism Collaborative Research Network at the Law and Society Association and council member of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association.
Before entering academia, Prof. Taylor Poppe was an associate in the Private Client Department of McDermott Will & Emery LLP in Chicago, IL and Associate Director of Planned Giving for the Harvard Business School in Boston, MA. Prof. Taylor Poppe holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Cornell University, a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, and A.B. degrees in Public Policy and Spanish from Duke University.
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- “Legal Actuation: How Ex Ante Legal Behavior Drives Inequality” (with Megan Doherty Bea), Law & Society Review, Cambridge University Press (Oct. 2024)
- Emily S. Taylor Poppe, Courts as Data Guardians for the Public Good, University of Torotono Law Journal (forthcoming 2023).
- Emily S. Taylor Poppe, Married, With Children at Death, 47 ACTEC Law Journal 131 (2022).
- Megan Doherty Bea & Emily S. Taylor Poppe, Marginalized Legal Categories: Social Inequality, Family Structures, and the Laws of Intestacy, 55 Law & Society Review 252 (2021).
- Emily S. Taylor Poppe, Evidence-Based Promulgation: Reconsidering the Rule-Making Process for the Rules of Professional Conduct, 89 Fordham Law Review 1275 (2021).
- Emily S. Taylor Poppe, Institutional Design for Access to Justice, 11 U.C. Irvine Law Review 781 (2021).
- Emily S. Taylor Poppe, Choice Building: Majoritarian Rulemaking in the Face of Preference Heterogeneity, 63 Arizona Law Review 103 (2021).
- Emily S. Taylor Poppe, Surprised by the Inevitable: An Empirical Examination of National Estate Planning Behavior, 53 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 2511 (2020).
- Mark D. Gough & Emily S. Taylor Poppe, (Un)Changing Rates of Pro Se Litigation in Federal Courts, 45 Law & Soc. Inquiry 567 (2020).
- October 2024
Talk on “Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives” at the Widening the Lens of Justice Conference, hosted by Harvard Law’s Center on the Legal Profession and the American Bar Foundation - October 2024
Commentator, “New Legal Realism & Legal Education I: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Law School Inclusion and Teaching Justice,” Widening the Lens of Justice: A 20th Anniversary New Legal Realism Conference on Inclusion, 'Bleached Out' Identity, and Ethics in Legal Education, Harvard Law School - June 2024
Chair/Discussant, “Access to Justice, Inequality, Class, and Difference,” Paper Session
Presenter, “Legal Actuation,” Law and Society Association’s Annual Meeting - March 2023
Presenter, Access to Justice Roundtable, University of South Carolina School of Law. - March 2023
Presenter, Drexel University Kline School of Law Faculty Workshop. - April 2022
Presenter, Symposium on Modern Challenges to the Judicial System, University of Toronto. - March 2022
Co-organizer (with Victoria Law Foundation), International Access to Justice Forum 2022. - Jan. 21, 2021:
Speaker, Legal Tech & Access to Justice: Thoughts from the Estate Planning Context, Cyberjustice Web-Conference Series, Cyberjustice Laboratory, Online - Oct. 2020:
Participant, The Judicial Role in Professional Regulation, Fordham Law, Online - Oct. 11, 2019:
Presenter, An Empirical Analysis of Wealth Transfer, 53rd Annual UC Davis Law Review Symposium, Davis, CA
- Appointed Reporter to the Uniform Law Commission Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA) Drafting Committee
- Faculty Roundup (November 2024)
- Faculty Roundup (October 2024)
- Intellectual Life Workshop Schedule 2023-24
- Faculty Roundup: The Latest Highlights from UCI Law’s Faculty
- CNET: AI Lawyer: It’s Starting as a Stunt, but There’s a Real Need
- Professor of Law Emily Taylor Poppe Named to Editorial Boards of Law & Social Inquiry and Law & Society Review