This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Friday, December 1st,

2023.

I'm Caleb Brown.

What is wrong with our civil justice system?

What does the lawyer monopoly on providing most legal services do for justice?

What reforms would make civil justice more rational?

And what might be the future role of AI in providing people with more vigorous representation.

Ridget Mary McCormack is a former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

She currently heads the American Arbitration Association.

We spoke about civil justice earlier this year.

You delivered the annual B Kenneth Simon lecture at Cato's Constitution Day

and you laid out something of a parade of horrors with

respect to our current legal system to our listeners I want to refer you to that

chilling speech, especially if you suspect that you're reasonably

satisfied with the judicial branch of government.

So part of the challenges you lay out, I think they all sort of fall, or some of them fall within one category, which is just people not being able to navigate the system without highly qualified assistance.

And hasn't that always been the case?

I mean, as long as I've been aware of there being a legal system,

it seems to me that it's been, it's very complicated,

lots of terms of art are thrown around.

Why is that such a notable thing right now?

Well, it is true that the legal system has always been complicated,

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