Bio

Ayelet Sela is the Civil Justice and Innovation Fellow at the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School. She is also a lecturer (assistant professor) at the Faculty of Law in Bar Ilan University (currently on sabbatical). Dr. Sela’s scholarship and teaching revolve around dispute system design, law and technology, courts, and empirical legal studies. Her recent academic work focuses on procedural design, procedural justice and access to justice in online courts and tribunals as well as in hybrid (remote) proceedings. She is particularly interested in exploring how the justice system can best serve self-represented individuals in these contexts. In addition, Dr. Sela collaborates with data scientists on the application of machine learning methods to legal data and studies questions related to the use of AI tools in governance mechanisms and judicial contexts. Previously, Dr. Sela was a senior fellow of the Jean Monett Center on Digital Governance, a founding member of the BIU LawData Lab, and a member of the Bar-Ilan University Data Science Institute. She also clerked for the Honorable Justice Eliezer Rivlin in the Israeli Supreme Court and worked as an auditor for the Israeli Ministry of Justice. Dr. Sela holds a JSD and JSM from Stanford Law School and an LL.B and “Amirim” Honors Program diploma from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Academic Appointments

  • Academic Fellow - Law, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession

Additional Info

2023-24 Courses

All Publications

  • Diversity by Design: Improving Access to Justice in Online Courts with Adaptive Court Interfaces Journal of Law & Ethics of Human Rights Sela, A. 2021; 15 (1): 125
  • Judicial Procedural Involvement (JPI): A Metric for Judges' Role in Civil Litigation, Settlement, and Access to Justice JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY Sela, A., Gabay-Egozi, L. 2020; 47 (3): 468-498

    View details for DOI 10.1111/jols.12243

    View details for Web of Science ID 000558439100001

  • E-Nudging Justice: The Role of Digital Choice Architecture in Online Courts Journal of Dispute Resolution Sela, A. 2019; 2019 (2): 127-165
  • Unsupervised Topic Extraction from Privacy Policies Sarne, D., Schler, J., Singer, A., Sela, A., Tov, I., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2019: 563-568

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3308560.3317585

    View details for Web of Science ID 000474353100088

  • Judges as Gatekeepers and the Dismaying Shadow of the Law: Courtroom Observations of Judicial Settlement Practices Harvard Negotiation Law Review Sela, A., Zimmerman, N., Alberstein, M. 2018; 24 (1): 83-126
  • Can Computers Be Fair: How Automated and Human-Powered Online Dispute Resolution Affect Procedural Justice in Mediation and Arbitration Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution Sela, A. 2018; 33: 91-148
  • The Effect of Online Technologies on Dispute Resolution System Design: Antecedents, Current Trends, and Future Directions Lewis & Clark Law Review Sela, A. 2017; 21 (3): 635-684
  • Streamlining Justice: How Online Courts Can Resolve the Challenges of Pro Se Litigation Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy Sela, A. 2016; 26 (2): 331-388
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