In this episode of the Court ODR Podcast, Colin Rule interviews J.J. Prescott, the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. JJ founded Court Innovations Inc. and developed Matterhorn, an online dispute resolution platform that helps people facing warrants, fines, minor charges, and other legal issues resolve their disputes with the government and other parties online and without the need to hire an attorney. Colin and JJ discuss the development of court ODR, lessons learned, and the potential for new approaches (such as asynchronous evaluative processes) moving forward.
Much of JJ’s research is empirical in focus, so the podcast also touches on data collection and continuing evaluation of court ODR. JJ’s current research projects include exploring the role of technology in improving access to justice and legal decision-making; studying the consequences of criminal record expungement and record-clearing reform; measuring the importance and role of noncompetition agreements in the US labor force; evaluating the effects of prosecutorial discretion and decision-making on short- and long-term defendant outcomes, including disparities; and investigating the nature and repercussions of partial settlements in litigation.
More about JJ: https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/jj-prescott
JJ’s article “Next Steps in Online Courts: Accelerating Access To Justice Through Court Technology Through Court Technology” from the Alaska Law Review (discussed in the podcast): https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4067&context=articles
In this episode of the Court ODR Podcast Colin interviews J.J. Prescott, the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. JJ founded Court Innovations Inc. and developed Matterhorn, an online dispute resolution platform that helps people facing warrants, fines, minor charges, and other legal issues resolve their disputes with the government and other parties online and without the need to hire an attorney. Colin and JJ discuss the development of court ODR, lessons learned, and the potential for new approaches (such as asynchronous evaluative processes) moving forward.
Much of JJ’s research is empirical in focus, so the podcast also touches on data collection and continuing evaluation of court ODR. JJ’s current research projects include exploring the role of technology in improving access to justice and legal decision-making; studying the consequences of criminal record expungement and record-clearing reform; measuring the importance and role of noncompetition agreements in the US labor force; evaluating the effects of prosecutorial discretion and decision-making on short- and long-term defendant outcomes, including disparities; and investigating the nature and repercussions of partial settlements in litigation.
More about JJ: https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/jj-prescott
JJ’s article “Next Steps in Online Courts: Accelerating Access To Justice Through Court Technology Through Court Technology” from the Alaska Law Review (discussed in the podcast): https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4067&context=articles
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