Apparent Surge in Self-Represented Litigation Using AI
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Apparent Surge in Self-Represented Litigation Using AI
Eugene Volokh | 4.28.2026 9:02 AM
From Anand V. Shah & Joshua Y. Levy, Access to Justice in the Age of AI: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts (in draft):
This paper studies how generative AI has reshaped entry into the federal civil court system. Drawing on administrative records covering more than 4.5 million non-prisoner federal civil court cases from FY2005-FY2026 and 46 million PACER docket........
