Victor Quintanilla
@ProfQuintanilla
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Prof @IUMaurerLaw, @IUCLSC, #accesstojustice, Civil Justice Design, #legaled, @law_soc, empirical methods, #eCRT, Law & Social Psych, https://t.co/JZxcVYwCcx
Bloomington, Indiana
Joined May 2020
I am grateful that the California Supreme Court took empirical evidence into account, including the racial and ethnic impacts of the bar exam, when deliberating on California's bar exam cut score. #legaled #diversity @TheAALS Section on Empirical Study.
latimes.com
Law school deans in California clamored for years to reduce the bar exam's passing score. When the pandemic hit, the California Supreme Court acted.
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RT @StateCourts: Join us for this #TinyChat that will make your court's remote hearings better! Get hard data, a touch of magic, and insigh….
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Thank you to @IndianaLawyer for in-depth reporting on our recent study, “Accessing Justice with Zoom: Experiences and Outcomes in Online Civil Courts,” discussing the benefits of remote hearings. via @IBJnews.
theindianalawyer.com
A team of researchers produced a new report, “Accessing Justice with Zoom: Experiences and Outcomes in Online Civil Courts,” which found more than 80% of unrepresented litigant respondents were able...
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RT @IUMaurerLaw: Hoosiers gave 'Zoom court' high marks. The @INCapChronicle highlights findings from @ProfQuintanilla's new report on virtu….
indianacapitalchronicle.com
Zoom court allowed thousands of Hoosiers to attend legal proceedings virtually — and safely — during the pandemic.
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RT @IndianaUniv: New research from @IUMaurerLaw examines the impact of remote court hearings on citizens, judges, and other players in the….
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RT @ABFResearch: As courts deliberate on the role of remote technologies in the new normal, a report coauthored by ABF Affil. Scholar @Prof….
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Congratulations @mcmpsych! Building and sharing the science that extends the concept of #growthmindset to understanding and shaping cultures within organizations and institutions is a powerful insight.
My Covid project's finally come to fruition & I'm proud of this one. In the weeks ahead, I'll be dispelling myths about mindset. I'll introduce concepts of mindset culture that we’ve studied for years-places we find ourselves able to use & benefit from our growth mindset(or not!)
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RT @mcmpsych: I am so proud of @ProfQuintanilla & his team @EquityXclerator for doing such important work examining the experiences & outco….
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16/16 This study was made possible through a collaboration between an interdisciplinary team of access to justice researchers and a network of court innovation and design experts, court administrators, legal aid providers, and jurists on Indiana’s Coalition for Court Access.
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15/16 Deep gratitude to the entire team at @pewtrusts, including @thisrickard, @darcyfwhite, @QudsiyaNaqui, and @ABFResearch, including Becky Sandefur, @mjburnett, and @SchmidtFutures, for making this possible.
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14/16 Deep gratitude to the whole community who worked on this project over the past three years, including my fellow co-authors Kurt Hugenberg, @hutchings_ryan, and @nedimyel, and collaborators Marilyn Smith, Diane Walker, Bob Rath, Kendra Key, @margarethagan, Amy Gonzales.
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13/16 This report highlights opportunities and challenges. It emphasizes the importance of continuing to listen and learn from the experiences of these litigants to guide innovation and people-centered design within the civil justice system in the US and more broadly.
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12/16 Finally, technological difficulties were more infrequent than anticipated, with only 10% of unrepresented litigants experiencing technological difficulties.
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11/16 Importantly, from a well-being perspective--unrepresented defendants reported greater stress within in-person proceedings than remote hearings. As a result, stress was greater for unrepresented defendants than unrepresented plaintiffs within in-person proceedings.
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10/16 with over 80 percent of these unrepresented litigants accessing their remote hearings from home or their workplace, for example.
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9/16 Moreover, the convenience gains of these remote hearings were apparent on multiple measures.
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8/16 Unrepresented defendants who accessed court remotely reported higher satisfaction with case outcomes than those attending court in person. As a result, the gap in outcome satisfaction between plaintiffs and defendants after in-person proceedings significantly narrowed.
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7/16 Moreover, we found gaps within in-person hearings in procedural justice and process evaluations between unrepresented plaintiffs and defendants, which narrowed or closed in remote proceedings. This pattern was consistent across multiple measures of the litigant experience.
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6/16 Most unrepresented persons who attended court remotely wished to access court remotely in the future. However, we observed a decline in their preference for in-person proceedings among litigants who attended court in person.
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5/16 The unrepresented litigants in this large-scale study spoke loudly and resoundingly: online civil courts enhance access to justice for unrepresented litigants, especially unrepresented defendants navigating high-volume civil dockets.
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