Legal technology and its impact on the access to justice, society, and the legal industry

Session

PANEL 1

23 Jun 2022, 08:50

Oktatási Központ/Földszint-III. előadó (Oktatási Központ)

1. Introductory remarks, greetings

Gergely DELI (Rector, University of Public Service)

23/06/2022, 08:50

2. Future Justice: some impacts of legal technology on the administration of justice.

Dory REILING (Former senior judge of the Amsterdam District Court, independent legaltech expert)

23/06/2022, 09:00

Future Justice: some impacts of legal technology on the administration of justice. In her talk, Dory will focus on legal information, technology, and how they will impact the way justice is done. Access to information, smarter technology will become more pervasive, and this way, change the way justice can be awarded to citizens.

3. A brief history of LegalTech

Kai JACOB (Founder and co-chair of the Liquid Legal Institute, Partner in Legal Operations & Transformation Services at KPMG Law)

23/06/2022, 09:25

“In his presentation, Kai will reflect on the journey LegalTech has taken since 2015, give an overview of where we are today and what the future will bring. He will highlight trends and specifics of the legal transformation and argue that besides technology, agile thinking, digital literacy and a people-centric approach are crucial.”

5. Human factors in dispute resolutions - can artificial intelligence and the use of smart contracts help resolve disputes?

Darius SZOSTEK (Professor of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia), Rafał Tomasz PRABUCKI (Assistant professor at the University of Silesia for the MAS4AI project)

23/06/2022, 09:50

Some attempts have recently been made in Poland to restore the justice of the peace model. The authors of the presentation note that this is a good moment to reflect on the contribution of new technologies to dispute resolution. Currently, two trends can be observed in improving dispute resolution. The first is the implementation and use of artificial intelligence. This direction raises...

6. Electronic communication with the court considering the traditional rules of civil procedure – on the example of the Polish legal regulations

Berenika KACZMAREK-TEMPLIN (Assistant professor at the Faculty of Management of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology)

23/06/2022, 11:05

In recent years, we have seen the tremendous development of new technologies, especially in the field of electronic communications. As they are present in citizens’ lives, there is an expectation that new technical possibilities will be used in the courts. In Poland, since 2010 the digital transformation of civil procedure began with the implementation of electronic writ proceedings. Among the...

12. Artificial Intelligence in criminal justice: recent experience from Malaysia

Boldizsár SZENTGÁLI-TÓTH

23/06/2022, 11:30

During recent years, the most emerging spread of artificial intelligence in the judiciary has been experienced in Malaysia, this tendency generated controversial social resound. The first steps were made during the first months of 2019, when a software has been developed to conduct certain judicial tasks. This technology was used first in February 2020, but during that period, only for...

13. Protecting consumers by design

Borbála Tünde DÖMÖTÖRFY, Judit FIRNIKSZ

23/06/2022, 11:45

Empowering consumers and creating an efficient consumer protection system has been a major challenge of all modern consumer societies, as trust and confidence are crucial for economic development.

As the complexity of the economy grows, an increasing number of regulations (e.g. data protection, consumer protection, competition law, sector-specific regulations, etc.) and the relevant...

14. Do androids dream about biased judges? – Self-fulfilling prophecies in litigation prediction by AI

János VAJDA

23/06/2022, 13:25

Quantitative legal prediction (QLP) is gaining increasing traction in the legal market. A potentially valuable feature of QLPs is identifying insightful behavioral patterns of specific judges inaccessible to human cognition. Even though there is an evident positive effect in such capability as it enhances the transparency of adjudication, there are concerns that such utilization of QLP raises....

15. Lawtech as a means of legal empowerment – the empirical lessons learned from a legal aid program

Valéria Eszter HORVÁTH (UPS Department of International Law / Budapest Bar Association)

23/06/2022, 13:40

Lawtech is often viewed as a means of making legal processes more efficient, thereby producing more value over less time. This value is measured in revenues. However, what if we stopped looking at lawtech as a means for lawyers to create more value over less time, and instead as a means of creating a sense of agency. Based on over a year-long experience in a legal aid program, the most value a...

16. Legal design for GDPR compliance

Bence KIS KELEMEN (senior lecturer (University of Pécs, Faculty of Law, Óriás Nándor Szakkollégium Law and Technology Working Group)), Gergely KAPPEL (student (University of Pécs, Faculty of Law, Óriás Nándor Szakkollégium Law and Technology Working Group))

23/06/2022, 13:55

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has created significant compliance requirements for personal data controllers, mostly of course business enterprises. The GDPR requires among others, that controllers must provide certain information for the data subjects on the controlling activity. In case of complex data controlling activities, these privacy policies are usually long,...

17. Robolawyers and legal chatbot services

Dániel NECZ

23/06/2022, 14:55

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an active player in the justice system in the recent years. This is especially true for legal chatbots and similar advisory services, which counsel clients in simple matters and are able to solve an array of everyday cases, such as appealing parking tickets or accomplishing similarly simple tasks. Legal chatbots are also actively used for empowering Pro...

18. Online dispute resolution systems. A real alternative of courts?

Dóra PÁLFI

23/06/2022, 15:10

When e-commerce appeared in the 1990s it brought with it disputes arising from it. E-commerce is risky as the contracting parties do not even know each other not to mention that disputes has additional legal difficulties concerning jurisdiction and applicable law. E-commerce websites worked out online dispute resolution (ODR) systems in order to maintain the trust of the users with an...

4. The incorporation of ICT’s in the Chilean and Latin-American civil justice systems. Analysis from an access to justice and judicial reform perspectives

Ricardo LILLO (Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Assistant professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibañez School of Law)

23/06/2022, 15:25

The incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the justice sector -which we refer to as e-justice- is not necessarily a recent phenomenon in Chile (Lillo and Vargas, 2020), Latin America (JSCA, 2020), and abroad (Reiling, 2009; Sanders, 2020). Notwithstanding, the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated this process since it has required rapid solutions to...