access to justice

The Wave Recedes: Providing Access to Justice for the Unconnected

Speaker(s): 
Keith Porcaro

Populations most in need of access to justice, such as the elderly and the urban and rural poor, also have limited access to connective technologies, such as the Internet, that are taken for granted in much of the United States. Although the cutting edge of technology rapidly advances, it proliferates unevenly, leaving a pervasive digital divide, with some 20 percent of Americans, or 60 million people, not connected to the Internet. In some cities, such as Detroit, the proportion of unconnected Americans approaches 60 percent.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
20 June 10:30 - 11:30
Room: 
WCC 2019

Teaching the Technology of Choice

Speaker(s): 
Marc Lauritsen

Choice making is a pervasive aspect of most forms of legal work. It’s central to case strategy, client counseling, advocacy, negotiation, document drafting, and adjudication. Yet law school courses rarely thematize it.
Humans evolved in environments that didn’t afford the luxury of many complex choices. Our ‘original equipment’ for decision making is not up to today’s realities. Brains run a quite buggy stack of software. Dozens of cognitive biases that afflict us have been documented. It’s a miracle we ever make good decisions.

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