[NOTE: This event has been rescheduled to 16 April 2010, Judge Reiling has announced.]
[NOTE: Updated on 6 February 2010 to correct the start time of the event to 12:30 p.m. and to add a contact for registration. Thanks to Judge Reiling for this information.]
Judge Dory Reiling, Ph.D., Vice President of the Amsterdam District Court, will discuss her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled Technology for Justice: How Information Technology Can Support Judicial Reform (2009), on 16 April 2010 12 February 2010, at 12:30 p.m. 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, at the World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
If you would like to attend, please contact Jean-Jacques Dethier, Jdethier [at] worldbank [dot] org .
Here is the abstract of the dissertation:
“Technology for Justice examines impacts of information technology (IT) on the administration of justice. Court users all over the world complain mainly about long delays, lack of access to justice and court corruption. Drawing on a broad variety of sources – comparative studies, statistics, case law and jurisprudence, studies on IT use and on court usage – this study examines how IT can help to remedy these complaints. The study, contributing to knowledge about information use and IT in proceedings, analyzes how automated case registration systems have revolutionized thinking about case management and significantly reduced court disposition times. It also explores Internet technology’s potential for increasing access to legal information, predicted by Richard Susskind in 1996, as a means for selfhelp with settlement and support for court access. Providing the first systematic analysis of court corruption, it analyzes IT’s contribution to reducing corruption. It closes by providing insights into the Internet’s new challenges for judiciaries.”
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