Digitalising Courts in Asia

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.

• List of Figures and IllustrationsNotes on Editors and ContributorsAcknowledgments1. Digitalising Courts: Leaving No One Behind Siddharth Peter de Souza and Julia WellhausenPart I: Administering Technology2. Administering Technology: The Implementation of Court Technology in the Indonesian Constitutional CourtPan Mohamad Faiz3, Transformation through Technology: ICT Initiatives in the Odisha JudiciaryS. Muralidhar4. Access to Justice and Digitalisation of Courts in South KoreaNam-Chul Chung5. Digital Transformation of the Philippine Judiciary for the Filipino PeopleIngrid Rosalie L. Gorre6. JIN ASEAN: Empowering Judiciaries to Protect People’s Rights in the Design of Court TechnologiesDiana Torres, Tomas Kvedaras & Sarah McCoubreyPart II: Adjudicating Technology7. The Division of Adjudicative Tasks in the Age of AI Adjudication in ThailandKraiphol Aranyarat8. The Past, Present and Future of Technology on Sentencing in Taiwan—Some Constitutional ReflectionsYi-Yi Lee9. AI and Criminal Sentencing in China: Applications, Misgivings and ProspectsXiaohan LiangPart III: Challenging Technology10. The Routinization and Depersonalization of JusticeJane Loo and Mark Findlay11. The Lengthening Shadow of the Legal Tech Market on the Supreme Court of IndiaVarsha Aithala and Siddharth Peter de Souza12. A Case of Digital Rights Discourse and Advocacy within Nepali JudiciaryRita Baramu13. Lessons from Pakistan’s Judicial Techno-SolutionismAimen Taimur14. Digital Rights in Southeast Asia: Civil Society’s Legal Tactics and Courts’ RolesLetitia Visan and Emilie Palamy Pradichit

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.