Juliet-Nil Uraz

ABF/JPB Access to Justice Research Initiative Early Career Scholar

Juliet-Nil Uraz (she/her) is a M.Phil./PhD. Candidate in the department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on access to justice, public economics, and inequality in comparative and historical perspective. She is also working with the Opportunity Insights initiative at the Harvard Economics Department in 2024-25.  

Before joining the LSE, Juliet contributed to the World Political Cleavages and Inequality book project co-directed by Thomas Piketty, in which she explored electoral dynamics and inequality in Turkey, Iraq, and Algeria. Before that, she worked at the European Systemic Risk Board, a regulatory authority hosted by the European Central Bank responsible for the macroprudential oversight of the EU’s financial system. There, she was involved in monitoring financial risks related to emerging third countries. 

Research Focus

Evaluating the introduction of right-to-counsel programs in the United States from a poverty alleviation perspective by assessing how civil legal assistance impacts the financial resilience of low-income tenants facing eviction and quantifying the extent to which it improves their access to the safety net.