How many ways are there to approach court reform? The #JARA conference in Limoges, France 10-12 June, explores a wide range:  #courts and #judiciaries are no longer taken for granted, the cliché says. How to approach and research court reform to increase legitimacy, trust and accountability of courts? Think independence, governance, managerialisation, procedural justice, trust, confidence and accountability and judiciary professions.

Information technology plays a major role in court reform. #IT must support fair #justice, not cost reduction. This poses issues for judicial independence, such as judicial digital governance, illustrated by examples of E-justice concrete cases and justice data spaces. Artificial intelligence #AI poses new issues for reforming judicial processes, also illustrated by concrete cases.

https://jar-association.eu/getting-ready-for-limoges-2025/

CTC

The 2009 Court Technology Conference will be held in Denver, Colorado September 22-24. Check out the program here.
I attended CTC for the first time in 1999, in Los Angeles, and have attended all of them (five in all) since then. They are organized by the National Center for State Courts in the U.S., and they are always an interesting mix of experience sharing, highlighting new issues and reactions to present-day problems.
This year's program focuses on keeping things going in difficult times, but it also has Ari Shapiro National Public Radio's justice expert in the opening keynote. There is always the election of the best court web site. I meet friends and colleagues at the special interest group for judges. Another of my favorite items is Fred Lederer's court technology lab.
My plan is to do a blog on the conference every day. My twitterpage @doryontour will announce the program items during the course of the day. So, keep coming back here, and also let me know what you think by sending comments.