![]() “Ralph’s request would be that courts in the cloud preserve core humane values-of course efficiency and cost savings but equity, fairness, due process in the eyes of the receiver, dignity, participation and respect for public health,” Koh said. Gants’ friend and colleague Harold Hongju Koh ’80 of Yale Law School recalled that he was excited by the potential of online courts to “meet the users where they are,” particularly through smartphones. Gants was also honored with an HLS Award for Professional Excellence. Gants ’80, who died in September and to whom Friday’s event was dedicated. Hosted by Harvard Law School’s Center for the Legal Profession, the webinar was an update to a HLS book talk that Susskind gave in April for his book, “Online Courts and the Future of Justice.” Joining him on that panel was Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph D. “Isn’t it fascinating in this time of great pressure, when judges and lawyers really needed to, how quickly they adapted? … Minds have been opened and many people are of the view that we will never go back.” “If you’d asked most judges and lawyers in January what they thought of video hearings, they’d have expressed an instinctive, visceral, negative view of their potential.” But the results were different than expected. Susskind highlighted how the pandemic has accelerated the trend towards online courts, with video hearings being most successful. In his keynote address, University of Oxford Professor Richard B. This idea was the starting point for a recent webinar, “Online Courts: Perspectives from the Bench and the Bar,” during which experts from the United States and the United Kingdom examined future prospects for online litigation, and its successes and failures to date. Even if there was no COVID-19, online courts would still be the wave of the future.
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