“The first duty of society is justice,” wrote Alexander Hamilton. The sacred promise, “equal justice under law,” bestrides the U.S. Supreme Court’s grand entrance, but “justice for only those who can afford it is neither justice for all nor justice at all.” Improving access to justice requires streamlining court procedures to better serve self-represented litigants, licensing more lawyers, allowing more kinds of legal providers, and using technology like AI. Closing the justice gap – a chasm, really – between the need for justice and its availability improves public trust in the justice system and supports judicial independence.