Our adversarial system, under which lawyers present their clients’ cases to the trier of fact (a judge or a jury), has been around for hundreds of years. In civil and criminal cases, attorneys gather ...

We are witnessing a rapid advancement of AI and its impact across various industries. However, with great power comes great responsibility, and one of the emerging challenges in the AI landscape is ...

Justice is adversarial. From the presentation of arguments in a case, to the physical layout of the courtroom, the justice system is inescapably built on the presentation of opposing views by opposing ...

The American legal system is expensive, making justice inaccessible to many. Mediation offers a more affordable and efficient alternative to traditional adversarial legal proceedings. In the late ...

To effectively deal with the challenges faced by our criminal justice system, we must determine whether the adversarial legal system we practice meets the end of justice for our country. If it does ...

Our adversarial legal system contemplates that each party will have the opportunity to fully investigate the facts of a dispute and bring to the attention of the trier of fact those facts most ...

As a parent with 20 years of experience dealing with the family-law system in B.C., I think the system is broken. It needs to be redesigned to serve the children’s interests, reducing the stresses ...

Note: This is part four of a six-part online symposium on the use of forensics in the criminal justice system. You can read the introduction and part one here, part two here and part three here. You ...

Imagine the following scenarios: An explosive device, an enemy fighter jet and a group of rebels are misidentified as a cardboard box, an eagle or a sheep herd. A lethal autonomous weapons system ...