Are Litigation Outcome Disparities Inevitable? Courts, Technology, and the Future of Impartiality

This article explores the ability of technology—specifically, online judicial procedures—to eliminate systematic group-level litigation outcome disparities (i.e., disparities correlated with the visible identity markers of litigants). Our judicial system has long operated under the assumption that i...

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1. VerfasserIn: Mentovich, Avital (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Rabinovich-Einy, Orna ; Prescott, J.J.
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2020
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