Huabing Li

Internet Courts and Access to Justice

Brenno Galli Award, SIDE 2025

Working paper, 2026

What if you could go through an entire lawsuit online, without leaving home? After China set up internet courts in Hangzhou, Beijing, and Guangzhou, more people took their disputes to court, many of them one-off litigants arguing their own cases. Defendants, too, were more likely to turn up and to have a lawyer, and there is no sign that judgments got worse.

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Cite

Li, Huabing. 2026. “Internet Courts and Access to Justice.” Working paper.

BibTeX
@unpublished{li2026internetcourts,
  author = {Li, Huabing},
  title = {{Internet Courts and Access to Justice}},
  note = {Working paper},
  year = {2026}
}