JUDICIAL EFFICIENCY REVISITED

The main topic of the Colloquium is devoted to one of the most topical challenges to global justice systems, the challenge of efficiency. Everybody knows that justice takes time and costs money, but in contemporary societies the expectations on national judiciaries are great – and often unfulfilled. Now more than ever, judicial systems need to concentrate on providing their users with fair and proportionate justice within reasonable time and at affordable price. The experience of the pandemic, technological advancements triggered by digitization and the use AI, and the global rise in the use of collective judicial proceedings motivate us to revisit and rethink the topic of judicial efficiency. New approaches may be necessary in many fields, and some of them are already in place in advanced jurisdictions and need to be discussed.

The colloquium will address how judicial efficiency is defined and assessed and what new tools and procedural principles can bring to improve it. We will bring together leading experts from Europe, South- and North America and Asia to address new developments regarding optimization of time and expenses of judicial practices and compare how efficiency is understood and measured in different regional context, with a special focus on harmonization trends. The colloquium will also present best papers submitted at the call for paper and selected by international jury, and a panel on judicial reforms in South and East of Europe.