'This is an invaluable collection of scholarly and insightful essays. As civil litigation, the world over, becomes increasingly costly, time-consuming, combative, and complex, the authors show - with enthusiasm and yet realism - how technology might help both streamline and transform dispute resolution processes. Mandatory reading for litigators and judges.' Richard Susskind, Society for Computers and Law
Introduction: civil justice at the crossroads David Freeman Engstrom; Part I. Legal Tech and the Innovation Ecosystem: 1. The future of American legal tech: regulation, culture, markets Benjamin H. Barton; 2. Lawtech: levelling the playing field in legal services? John Armour and Mari Sako; 3. Natural language processing in legal tech Julian Nyarko and Jens Frankenreiter; Part II. Legal Tech, Litigation, and the Adversarial System: 4. Remote testimonial fact-finding Renee L. Danser, D. James Greiner, Elizabeth Guo, and Erik Koltun; 5. Gamesmanship in modern discovery tech Neel Guha, Peter Henderson, and Diego A. Zambrano; 6. Legal tech and the litigation playing field David Freeman Engstrom and Nora Freeman Engstrom; 7. Litigation outcome prediction, access to justice, and legal endogeneity Charlotte S. Alexander; 8. Towards the participatory MDL: a low-tech step to promote litigant autonomy Todd Venook and Nora Freeman Engstrom; Part III. Legal Tech and Access to Justice: 9. The supply and demand of legal help on the Internet Margaret Hagan; 10. Digital inequalities and access to justice: dialing into Zoom court unrepresented Victor D. Quintanilla, Kurt Hugenberg, Margaret Hagan, Amy Gonzales, Ryan Hutchings, and Nedim Yel; 11. Online dispute resolution and the end of adversarial justice? Norman W. Spaulding; 12. Using ODR platforms to level the playing field: improving pro se litigation through ODR design J. J. Prescott; Part IV. Courts, Data, and Civil Justice: 13. The disruption we needed: COVID-19, court technology, and access to justice Bridget M. McCormack; 14. Free PACER Jonah B. Gelbach; 15. Technological challenges facing the judiciary Albert H. Yoon; 16. The civil justice data gap Tanina Rostain and Amy O'Hara.