In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Professor Jonah Gelbach, whose research spans a variety of topics, including civil procedure, evidence, statutory interpretation and legislation, and law and economics. He has a Ph.D. in economics and was a professor with a specialization in econometrics before earning his J.D. and joining the legal academy. He’s also worked as an expert witness in employment and securities cases. 

For more than a decade, he’s been demonstrating how aggregating federal court data can help researchers tease out critical trends, pushing for the federal judiciary to drop the paywall on the Public Access to Court Electronic Records database — the online repository of more than than 1 billion federal court records, commonly referred to as PACER — for non-parties to access information. 

Click below to read some of Professor Gelbach’s work and other groups advocating for easier access to federal court data. 

• Beyond Transsubstantivity
• Estimation Evidence
• Legal Tech, Civil Procedure, and the Future of Adversarialism
• Locking the Doors to Discovery? Assessing the Effects of Twombly and Iqbal on Access to Discovery
• Free Law Project

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“Berkeley Law Voices Carry”is a podcast hosted by Gwyneth Shaw in the Berkeley Law Communications Office about how the school’s faculty, students, and staff are making an impact — in California, across the country, and around the world — through pathbreaking scholarship, hands-on legal training, and advocacy. 

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