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PSG. 18-4: Justice and Court Administration : Artificial Intelligence in the Judiciary
Time:
Thursday, 07/Sept/2023:
9:30am - 11:00am
Session Chair: Daniel KETTIGER, University of Bern
Location:Room 139
20 pax
Presentations
The Swiss practice of publication and anonymization of court decisions – comparison of surveys’ results from 2012, 2017 and 2022
Magda CHODUP
University of Bern, Switzerland
The main subject of the proposed article and presentation should be a comparison between studies conducted in Switzerland within 10 years (2012, 2017 and 2022) concerning publication and anonymization of court decisions.
Practical aspects of publication and anonymization of court decisions, especially made by cantonal courts stay in focus of researchers since many years. Particularly interesting are similar studies made as follow-up surveys in years 2012 (by Daniel Hürlimann alone ), 2017 (on behalf of the Association eJustice.ch ) and 2022 (within the frameworks of the Project “Open Justice versus Privacy” conducted as a part of the National Research Program "Digital Transformation" (NRP 77) ).
Although there are several differences concerning methodology and detailed scope, all of these survey shows the unique state of the publication and anonymization practices of cantonal and federal (concerns surveys from 2012 and 2022) courts in Switzerland, especially: which court`s decision are being published and where (online, in written collection of courts` decisions, in judicial magazines etc.). which published courts’ decisions are being anonymized and how, do Swiss courts use any IT tools for publication and or anonymization of their decisions, do they see any need for improvement concerns publication/anonymization practice or use of IT tools in these areas?
The main goal of the proposed article and presentation is to show how the publication and anonymization practice of Swiss courts evolved during the last 10 years.
This study was financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as part of the National Research Programme NRP77 Digital Transformation, project no. 187477.
Understanding Natural Language Processing in the Legal Area and its Impact for Courts
Matthias STÜRMER, Joel NIKLAUS
Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Lawyers and even judges are using ChatGPT for court cases, as recently reported by news outlets (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65735769, https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bdmv/judge-used-chatgpt-to-make-court-decision). Such examples may seem inappropriate, but they demonstrate how artificial intelligence (AI) methods, such as natural language processing (NLP), are already impacting the justice system. Our interdisciplinary computer science research on NLP applications in law explores the potential and challenges of AI for courts. We provide an introduction to NLP, illustrate examples of legal NLP tasks, and present how the Swiss Federal Court is using a new multi-lingual legal language model to improve the anonymization of its court cases.
