Access to Justice (AJ) is a Nigeria-focused human rights organization based in Lagos founded in 1999. According to their website, "AJ is a justice advocacy group working to defend the rights of equal and non-discriminatory access to courts of law, expand access of marginalized people to equal and impartial justice, attack corruption in justice administration, support legal struggles for human dignity and disseminate legal resources that help achieve these purposes." AJ pursues their goals through three related programs: Judicial Integrity and Independence Programme, Legal Access Programme, and Legal Resources Programme. They publish books, journals, and articles in support of their work.

Access to Justice has frequently partnered with other human rights organizations in pursuit of specific issues. In June 2010 Access to Justice joined with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and several other Nigerian human rights organizations in calling on state governments not to resume the execution of prisoners. In April 2009 they joined Amnesty International and many other Africa-based NGO's in issuing a statement calling on the government of Sudan "to stop harassing and intimidating human rights defenders and staff of national and international aid and human rights organizations."

Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. He also works with the firm Massey & Gail LLP on a variety of matters.

Tribe is widely recognized as a leading liberal scholar of constitutional law. He is the author of American Constitutional Law (1978), a treatise in that field, and has argued before the United States Supreme Court 35 times.

Tribe was born in the World War II Shanghai ghetto to parents of Askenazi Jewish descent, originally from modern-day Belarus. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, California. He holds an A.B. in mathematics, summa cum laude from Harvard College (1962), and a J.D., magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1966), where he was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. Tribe was a national champion policy debater at Harvard, and later a college coach and high school summer institute teacher.^{[citation needed]}

Tribe served as a law clerk to Mathew Tobriner on the California Supreme Court from 1966–67, and as a law clerk to Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967–68. He joined the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in 1968, receiving tenure in 1972.^{[citation needed]}