The Court ODR Podcast

Colin Rule

In depth interviews with leading thinkers focused on how Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) tools and techniques can help courts and legal aid providers expand access to justice and promote fast and fair resolutions.

  1. 07/26/2025

    Exploring Asynchronous Trials with Professor Henry Zhuhao Wang (Episode 10)

    In this episode Colin chats with Professor Henry Zhuhao Wang from the College of law at Florida State University about asynchronous trials, or trials that take places online without real-time interaction between the litigants and judge. Almost all US court procedures currently involve live, real-time interaction between the participants (e.g. in person or video hearings, referred to as synchronous interactions) -- in contrast, asynchronous trials enable participants to log in, respond to information, and then log out (think email based interaction, or an online discussion forum, or even a documents-based arbitration). As more of the internet moves from synchronous to asynchronous interaction, Henry and Colin explore the challenges and opportunities that could arise from the application of this new model to trials. Henry Zhuhao Wang is the Tallahassee alumni professor at Florida State University College of Law. His research focuses on evidence and juridical proof, exploring evidence law outside the jury context, primarily in bench trials, arbitration, and administrative proceedings. He served as a visiting professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law during the 2022-2023 academic year and was a professor at China University of Political Science and Law from 2012 to 2022. Wang co-authored the book “Proof in Modern Litigation: Evidence Law & Forensic Science Perspectives” (Barr Smith Press 2017), and published extensively in U.S., Chinese, and international legal journals. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Utah Law Review, UC Irvine Law Review, Denver Law Review, Nevada Law Journal, and the peer-reviewed International Journal of Evidence & Proof. He previously worked as an international associate at Locke Lord LLP in Dallas, Texas, and as a visiting researcher at the University of Adelaide Law School in Adelaide, Australia. He teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. More about Henry: http://law.fsu.edu/faculty-staff/henry-zhuhao-wang Henry's article "Asynchronous Trials: A New Approach To High-Volume Civil Adjudication" in the Denver law Review (discussed extensively in the podcast) can be accessed here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4946817

  2. 07/23/2025

    Artificial Intelligence, Justice, and ODR: A Conversation with Richard Susskind (Episode 9)

    In this episode, Colin interviews AI and justice expert Richard Susskind about his new book, How to Think about AI: A Guide for the Perplexed, the latest developments in AI and the justice system, and how artificial intelligence will transform court ODR (as well as our very notions of the role of humans in justice) over the coming years and decades. Professor Richard Susskind CBE KC (Hon) is the world’s most cited author on the future of legal services and a leading expert on the impact of AI on society. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law and, from 1998 to 2023, he served as Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. In 2024, Richard was appointed Special Envoy for Justice and AI to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. He advises leading professional firms, in-house legal departments, and governments and judiciaries around the world. In the 1980s, he wrote his doctorate on AI and the law at Balliol College, Oxford. His work has been translated into 18 languages and he has been invited to speak in over 60 countries. He has written eleven books, including Online Courts and the Future of Justice (2019, 2021) and How to Think About AI (2025). More about Richard: https://www.susskind.com/ Information about his new book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Think-About-AI-Perplexed/dp/0198941927 Online Courts and the Future of Justice: https://www.amazon.com/Online-Courts-Justice-Richard-Susskind/dp/0192849301

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In depth interviews with leading thinkers focused on how Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) tools and techniques can help courts and legal aid providers expand access to justice and promote fast and fair resolutions.