Digitalising Courts in Asia: Exploring the Mechanics of Judicial Transformations (Access to Justice in a Changing World) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1399547615 ISBN 13: 9781399547611

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Authors

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399547615
• ISBN 13: 9781399547611
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: De Souza Siddharth Peter, Wellhausen Julia