Civil Procedure, Co-Sponsored by Litigation

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Recent section programs have looked to the past (The FRCP at 75), and the present (The Roberts Court). This year’s program looks to the future of procedure by considering the relationship between procedure and technology, and the lessons each may have for theories of procedural justice. Specifically, the program will ask how procedure acts as technology, and how technology is a form of procedure. For example, online takedown notices and automated filtering algorithms serve obvious adjudicative functions without the involvement of a court or traditional procedure. Thus, in a world where many disputes are "settled" without any real hope of a court date, it is time to consider how principles of procedural justice ought to shape our procedures, whether embodied in civil rules or online algorithms. Accordingly, this panel joins prominent scholars on procedure and on technology for a discussion aimed at cross-pollinating perspectives from both, with the goal of formulating new theories of procedural justice to inform the creation of better procedures and technologies.

Business meeting at program conclusion.