Making EU Justice Smart? Looking into the Implementation of New Technologies to Improve the Efficiency of Cross Border Justice Services Delivery

Collaborative Network Governance Framework for Aligning Open Justice and e-Justice Ecosystems for Greater Public Value

“…Court website promoted greater transparency in government, with greater online access to courts predicted practical administrative decisions than political decisions. Finally, European Union use of smart e-justice systems through an e-justice portal showed positive impacts on the efficiency in delivering cross-border justice services (Lupo & Velicogna, 2018).…”

Investigating the determinants of inter-organizational information sharing within criminal justice: A context-mechanism-outcome approach

“…Compared with the traditional view emphasizing top-down control and a centralized IT governance structure, the emergent approach revolves around a more flexible IT governance strategy featuring the absence of a pre-existing plan. Far from being unsuccessful, the emergent approach enables the bottom-up alignment between the technical (i.e., technological infrastructures, platforms, and standards) and the social aspects (i.e., governance structures, and project management approaches) through the emergence of "transient" organizational structures and the ongoing reassembling and recombining of data standards (Lanzara, 1999;Lupo & Velicogna, 2018). Accordingly, both approaches can lead to successful inter-organizational information sharing depending on whether centralized IT governance is present (i.e., deliberate plan based on top-down alignment) or absent (i.e., emergent plan based on bottom-up alignment).…”

In Search of Smartness: The EU e-Justice Challenge

“…The API-for-Justice case study has been carried out following a multidisciplinary research approach which mixes social science theories, methods and tools with the legal as well as the information and communication ones [11,12]. This multi-disciplinarity approach promotes understanding of the multi-domain nature of the phenomena under observation, which are the result of the interaction of technological, legal, and social components within complex and evolving governance frameworks.…”

“…"The creation of a European common market and the free circulation of goods, services and people have increased the relevance of having faster, simpler and cheaper cross-border judicial procedures, of ensuring a high level of security and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, of supporting access to justice and ensuring the right to litigation in civil matters" [12]. To this end, the European Union adopted several directives, regulations, and other legal instruments to harmonize procedures and support cooperation in the criminal and civil justice areas, such as the European Arrest Warrant [35], the European Investigation Order [36], the European Payment Order [37], the European Small Claim Procedure [38], the Service of Documents in civil or commercial matters [39], and the European Account Preservation Order [40].…”

“…Within the e-SENS project, the e-Justice domain team also worked on the attempt to extend the number of procedures available to end users through the infrastructure [47]. While both the European e-Justice Portal and the European e-Justice Digital Service Infrastructure are operational and a number of services are provided, these systems have by themselves been so far insufficient to make an EU cross-border judicial procedure sufficiently accessible to attract a large mass of users [12,28]. The CEF 'CEF-TC-2017-1: European e-Justice Portal' call for a proposal can be seen as an attempt to address the problem, encouraging "the further development and connection of services to the existing modules of the European e-Justice Portal" [48] and, in particular, supporting Member States' wishes to join "the e-CODEX judicial workflows operated in the context of the European e-Justice Portal or cross-border initiatives associated with it" [49].…”