In Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice, Stanford Law School’s David Freeman Engstrom, the LSVF Professor in Law and co-director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, takes a deep dive into technological developments in the legal system. Engstrom and his 28 co-contributors, including six SLS faculty members, dissect the legal and policy implications of the technologies that are poised to remake the civil justice system, from virtual legal proceedings to AI-fueled litigation tools.
Learn more about the edition in a Q&A with Engstrom and download the various chapters for free via Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Part I - Legal Tech and the Innovation Ecosystem
• 1 - The Future of American Legal Tech: Regulation, Culture, Markets by Benjamin H. Barton
• 2 - Lawtech: Leveling the Playing Field in Legal Services? by John Armour, Mari Sako
• 3 - Natural Language Processing in Legal Tech by Jens Frankenreiter, Julian Nyarko

Part II - Legal Tech, Litigation, and the Adversarial System
• 4 - Remote Testimonial Fact-Finding by Renee L. Danser, D. James Greiner, Elizabeth Guo, Erik Koltun
• 5 - Gamesmanship in Modern Discovery Tech by Neel Guha, Peter Henderson, Diego A. Zambrano
• 6 - Legal Tech and the Litigation Playing Field by David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
• 7 - Litigation Outcome Prediction, Access to Justice, and Legal Endogeneity by Charlotte S. Alexander
• 8 - Toward the Participatory MDL: A Low-Tech Step to Promote Litigant Autonomy by Todd Venook, Nora Freeman Engstrom

Part III - Legal Tech and Access to Justice
• 9 - The Supply and Demand of Legal Help on the Internet by Margaret Hagan
• 10 - Digital Inequalities and Access to Justice: Dialing into Zoom Court Unrepresented by Victor D. Quintanilla, Kurt Hugenberg, Margaret Hagan, Amy Gonzales, Ryan Hutchings, Nedim Yel
• 11 - Online Dispute Resolution and the End of Adversarial Justice? by Norman W. Spaulding
• 12 - Using ODR Platforms to Level the Playing Field: Improving Pro Se Litigation through ODR Design by J.J. Prescott

Part IV - Courts, Data, and Civil Justice
• 13 - The Disruption We Needed: COVID-19, Court Technology, and Access to Justice by Bridget Mary McCormack
• 14 - Free PACER by Jonah B. Gelbach
• 15 - Technological Challenges Facing the Judiciary by Albert H. Yoon
• 16 - The Civil Justice Data Gap by Tanina Rostain, Amy O’Hara