Full Description
This Handbook is the first global comparative volume that examines the use of AI and digital technologies in courts. With contributions from over seventy academics, judges, and other professionals from over twenty-five countries, it provides an interdisciplinary and cross-jurisdictional perspective on how judicial institutions are responding to the opportunities and risks posed by AI. Covering judicial use of AI across domestic and regional jurisdictions in Europe, North and South America, Asia-Pacific and Africa, this Handbook begins with the premise that introducing AI into courts is not merely a technical upgrade but a constitutional reckoning and fresh call for judicial accountability. Each chapter examines not just what AI can do for courts, but what courts must do to ensure that AI tools enhance, rather than erode judicial values, justice and the rule of law.
Contents
Foreword; 1. AI in Courtrooms Across the Globe Part I. Courts and AI: Context and Normative Positions; 2. AI and Courts: Challenges and Opportunities 3. The History and Developments of AI in Courts: A Legal Informatics Perspective; 4. Judging and Limits on Legal Automation; 5. Chief Justice Robots; 6. The Rule of AI and the Rule of Law; 7. Artificial Intelligence in the Judiciary: A Threat to the Rule of Law?; 8. Anticipatory Governance and AI in Courts; Part II. Courts and AI: Disciplinary Perspectives; 9. The Internalisation and Externalisation of Judicial Functions in the Age of AI; 10. AI Generated Evidence Used in European Criminal Courtrooms; 11. Courts and AI: An Administrative Law Perspective; 12. Criminal Courts and AI: On the Role and Use of Algorithms at Sentencing; 13. AI in Criminal Justice: Against the Trade Secret Privilege; 14. Public Perceptions of Judicial Use of AI: A Legal and Psychological Perspective; Part III. AI and Tech Challenges to Judicial Values; 15. AI and Judicial Transparency; 16. Judicial Independence: Impact of AI on Courts; 17. Judicial Impartiality: AI in Courts; 18. Procedural Fairness, AI and Courts; 19. AI and the Judicial Duty to State Reasons; 20. Balancing Legal Certainty and Judicial Discretion in AI-Assisted Adjudication; 21. AI and the Efficiency of Courts; 22. AI, Judicial Diversity, and Representativeness; 23. Judicial Competence and AI; 24. AI and Judicial Accountability; Part IV. AI in Courts Across the Globe: Jurisdictional Perspectives; International and Regional Jurisdictions; 25. AI and Courts: An International Human Rights Perspective; 26. AI at the European Court of Human Rights; 27. The Right to a Fair Trial & the 'AI-Equipped-Judges' of the Future; 28. EU AI Act and Courts; 29. AI Literacy and the Judiciary under the EU AI Act; AI and Courts in Europe; 30. Generative AI and Courts in the UK: A Candle in a Hurricane; 31. AI and the Courts in Germany; 32. Digital Justice in Estonia; 33. AI in Courts in Eastern Europe: Lithuania & Poland; 34. AI and Courts in Central Europe: Croatia and Slovenia; 35. AI and Courts in Spain; 36. Courts and the Use of Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Türkiye; AI and Courts in the Americas; 37. Generative AI and Courts in the United States; 38. The Regulation of Judicial Use of Artificial Intelligence in Colombia from the Perspective of Legal Field Theory; 39. Courting AI: How Brazilian Courts are Using AI; AI and Courts in Other Parts of the World; 40. Application of Technologies and AI in the Nigerian Court System: Challenges and Prospects; 41. AI and India's Judicial System: Lessons from POCSO; 42. Algorithmic Justice: AI Sentencing Tools in Taiwan ; 43. AI and Courts in Japan; 44. Courts and AI: A View from Australia and New Zealand; 45. The Future of Courts and AI.
