The Cambridge Handbook of AI and Technologies in Courts

Monika Zalnieriute's is a co-editor of Money, Power and AI (2023) and The Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State (2024). Her research has influenced policy in international organisations such as the Council of Europe, World Bank, European Parliament and WHO, is translated into Mandarin, Russian and German, and has appeared in BBC and The Guardian. Agne Limante is a scholar at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences. She specialises in human rights and emerging technologies. With over fifty publications and extensive editorial experience, since 2025, Agne has been serving at the European AI Office, where she contributes to shaping AI regulation and policy.

• 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.