Day 1: Thursday, July 24, 2025

9:00–9:30 AM CST—Breakfast and Welcome

9:30–11:30 AM CST—Panel 1: “What is Civil Procedure For?”

Ronen Avraham, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University Buchman Faculty of Law, and
Senior Lecturer, University of Texas School of Law

Presenting: “Money Buys Process” and “Markets in Everything but Name” from Justice for Sale: Hidden Markets in Civil Procedure (Precis)

Issi Rosen-Zvi, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University, American Bar Foundation

          Presenting: “It’s (Not All) Personal: Civil Litigation and the Values of Rights of Action”

Scott Dodson, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law and James Edgar
Hervey Chair in Litigation, UC San Francisco Law School

Brooke Coleman, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Fredric C. Tausend Professor of
Law, Seattle University School of Law

11:30 AM–1:00 PM CST—Lunch and Keynote Speaker

Pablo Arredondo, Vice President, CoCounsel at Thompson Reuters

Presenting: “The Future of Legal Tech, AI, and Litigation”

1:00–3:00 PM CST—Panel 2: “Explicit Markets as a Solution to Hidden Markets?”

William Hubbard, Deputy Dean and Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, and Research Professor

Presenting: “How is a Courtroom like a Highway?” and “Getting Real about Markets
for Procedure” from Justice for Sale: Hidden Markets in Civil Procedure (Precis)

Jonah Gelbach, Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law at Berkeley Law School

Presenting: “LitCo: Harnessing Markets to Manage Mass Tort MDLs”

Eric Helland, Professor of Economics at Claremont McKenna College, George R.
Roberts Fellow

Alon Klement, Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University Buchman Faculty of Law

3:00–3:30 PM CST—Coffee Break

3:30–5:30 PM CST—Panel 3: “How Can Technologies Transform Access to Justice?”

David Freeman Engstrom, LSVF Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Co-Director
of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession

Presenting: “Managerial Courts”

Amit Haim, Assistant Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law

Presenting: “Designing Better Doors: An AI Tool that helps Legal Aid Providers Select
Cases”

Daniel Chen, Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research
(CNRS), Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics, and former ABF Visiting Scholar

Peter Salib, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center, Co-Director of the Center for Law and AI Risk

Tom R. Tyler, Macklin Fleming Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale Law School and Affiliated Research Professor, American Bar Foundation

6:00–8:30 PM CST—Dinner

Day 2: Friday, July 25, 2025

8:30–9:00 AM CST—Breakfast and Welcome

9:00–10:30 AM CST—Panel 4: “How can markets and tech change high-volume litigation?”

David Freeman Engstrom, LSVF Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Co-Director
of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession

Presenting: “The Puzzle of Anemic ‘Legal Tech’ and the Future of Legal Services”

Pamela Bookman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Fordham
Law School

JJ Prescott, Henry King Ransom Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law

Danny Wilf-Townsend, Associate Professor at Georgetown Law, ABF Access to Justice
Scholar

10:30–11:00 AM CST—Coffee Break

11:00 AM–1:00 PM CST—Panel 5: “What are Paths to Reform in an Entrenched System?”

Cassie Chambers Armstrong, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Louisville
Brandeis School of Law, ABF Access to Justice Scholar, Kentucky State Senator

Presenting: “Country Roads, City Streets: A Place for Justice in Domestic Violence
Protective Order Cases”

Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Founding Director of
the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law

Presenting: “The Capital of and the Investments in Courts, State and Federal”

Additional Content: Syllabus for “Accessing and Rationing Legal Remedies: Funding Claimants and Courts in the US and Europe”

Stephen Daniels, American Bar Foundation Research Professor Emeritus

Alexandra Lahav, Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

1:00–2:00 PM CST—Lunch and Conclusion