Across Asia, courts are taking a variety of approaches to digital transformations. This book documents the diversity and complexity of the ways in which judiciaries are seeing the promise, as well as the perils, of digital transformations.
Through in-depth case studies, the book brings together contributions from those with experience in the administration of technology in courts itself to those who are actively finding ways to develop technology as a tool for adjudication. It also includes reflections from those who are challenging the effects of technology in terms of court processes and arguing for the need for care and caution to ensure digital justice. The pieces take the form of institutional, policy, empirical studies that each analyse the non-linearity of digital transformations. In doing so, they offer practical pathways, as well as critical reflections, which bridge theory and practice, and highlight the uniqueness of Asia as a location for innovation, as well as critical reflection around the digital transformations of courts.
List of Figures and Illustrations Notes on Editors and Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Digitalising Courts: Leaving No One Behind Siddharth Peter de Souza and Julia Wellhausen Part I: Administering Technology 2. Administering Technology: The Implementation of Court Technology in the Indonesian Constitutional Court Pan Mohamad Faiz 3, Transformation through Technology: ICT Initiatives in the Odisha Judiciary S. Muralidhar 4. Access to Justice and Digitalisation of Courts in South Korea Nam-Chul Chung 5. Digital Transformation of the Philippine Judiciary for the Filipino People Ingrid Rosalie L. Gorre 6. JIN ASEAN: Empowering Judiciaries to Protect People’s Rights in the Design of Court Technologies Diana Torres, Tomas Kvedaras & Sarah McCoubrey Part II: Adjudicating Technology 7. The Division of Adjudicative Tasks in the Age of AI Adjudication in Thailand Kraiphol Aranyarat 8. The Past, Present and Future of Technology on Sentencing in Taiwan—Some Constitutional Reflections Yi-Yi Lee 9. AI and Criminal Sentencing in China: Applications, Misgivings and Prospects Xiaohan Liang Part III: Challenging Technology 10. The Routinization and Depersonalization of Justice Jane Loo and Mark Findlay 11. The Lengthening Shadow of the Legal Tech Market on the Supreme Court of India Varsha Aithala and Siddharth Peter de Souza 12. A Case of Digital Rights Discourse and Advocacy within Nepali Judiciary Rita Baramu 13. Lessons from Pakistan’s Judicial Techno-Solutionism Aimen Taimur 14. Digital Rights in Southeast Asia: Civil Society’s Legal Tactics and Courts’ Roles Letitia Visan and Emilie Palamy Pradichit
Siddharth Peter de Souza is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK, and Founder of Justice Adda, a law and design social venture in India. Julia Wellhausen is a civil and criminal law judge (appointed in 2005 and 2010) and (first) public prosecutor (appointed in 2008 and 2017) by the Bavarian Minister of Justice.
Reviews for Digitalising Courts in Asia: Exploring the Mechanics of Judicial Transformations
This book is a welcome addition to the body of literature on the digital transformation of the public sector in Asia. Its authors offer deep dives into the processes and implications of digitalising justice, providing an important array of practices and perspectives from the Majority World.--Jun-E Tan, Khazanah Research Institute
