Open JusticePub Date : 2019-03-07DOI: 10.5771/9783845297620-9
B. Hess, Anamaría Harvey
{"title":"Open Justice in Modern Societies: What Role for Courts?","authors":"B. Hess, Anamaría Harvey","doi":"10.5771/9783845297620-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845297620-9","url":null,"abstract":"The title of this book, and the notion that is explored throughout, is that of ‘open justice’ .1 The basic idea behind open justice appears to be simple and universally accepted: a legal rule that requires courts and other adjudicative bodies to conduct their proceedings in public.2 The principle of open justice is also widely recognised as an indispensable element of the rule of law3 and thus of great importance for the functioning of democratic societies. The idea contained in the maxim that justice must be seen to be done4 is well-established and guranteed by most international, constitutional, and statutory legal texts. And yet, it is less clear precisely how we are to understand this notion today. In the age of information technology and the transformation of the public sphere, this question merits attention and careful consideration. Faced with the fast-changing landscape of dispute resolution, and political populist movements which threaten to undermine the independence and impartiality of judiciary, what role should modern courts play in ensuring a degree of openness necessary to support the rule of law? 1.","PeriodicalId":378271,"journal":{"name":"Open Justice","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123618570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open JusticePub Date : 2019-03-07DOI: 10.5771/9783845297620-125
Sir Ernest Ryder
{"title":"Securing Open Justice","authors":"Sir Ernest Ryder","doi":"10.5771/9783845297620-125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845297620-125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378271,"journal":{"name":"Open Justice","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131104045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open JusticePub Date : 2018-10-22DOI: 10.5771/9783845297620-177
J. Resnik
{"title":"The Functions of Publicity and of Privatization in Courts and Their Replacements (from Jeremy Bentham to #MeToo and Google Spain)","authors":"J. Resnik","doi":"10.5771/9783845297620-177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845297620-177","url":null,"abstract":"Jeremy Bentham theorized the disciplinary, educative, and evaluative utilities of public adjudication, in which third parties can observe and critique the proceedings. Constitutions around the world have applied those ideas through mandates for ‘open courts’ and ‘fair hearings,’ albeit translated in practice in diverse ways. \u0000The contemporary #MeToo movement has deployed Bentham’s ‘publicity principle’ by using twenty-first century technologies to challenge institutions for failing to sanction sexual predators. The web has thus provided a function akin to what courts do—disseminating information and imposing discipline. These new technologies, enabling ‘online dispute resolution’ (ODR), augment efforts styled alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to transform courts or to route legal disputes to conclusions without courts. Neither ODR nor ADR, based in or out of courts, routinely builds in mechanisms for third-party access to processes or outcomes. \u0000Ready access to information is not, however, an unmitigated good, as reflected in a new right ‘to be forgotten’ that eliminates materials from the web through decisions by a private adjudicator—Google. This chapter explores the impetus for reforming courts, the repeat players promoting new procedures, the challenges of regulating both process and information, and the fragility of commitments to state-provided public adjudication in which third parties are recognized as authorized to observe and critique.","PeriodicalId":378271,"journal":{"name":"Open Justice","volume":"27 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116346175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open JusticePub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5771/9783845297620-143
T. Giegerich
{"title":"Transparency in the Selection of Constitutional Court Judges: Contextualised Comparison between the USA, Germany and the European Courts in Luxembourg and Strasbourg","authors":"T. Giegerich","doi":"10.5771/9783845297620-143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845297620-143","url":null,"abstract":"Constitutional Jurisdiction on the National, International and Supranational Levels – Overcoming the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty","PeriodicalId":378271,"journal":{"name":"Open Justice","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114792186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open JusticePub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5771/9783845297620-117
R. Herz
{"title":"The Dilemma of Open Justice in the Present Political, Social and Cultural Climate","authors":"R. Herz","doi":"10.5771/9783845297620-117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845297620-117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378271,"journal":{"name":"Open Justice","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124603124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open JusticePub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5771/9783845297620-97
Jean-Claude Wiwinius
{"title":"Public Hearings in Civil Proceedings: From the Perspective of a Luxembourgish Judge","authors":"Jean-Claude Wiwinius","doi":"10.5771/9783845297620-97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845297620-97","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378271,"journal":{"name":"Open Justice","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114795981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open JusticePub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5771/9783845297620-59
Cécile Chainais
{"title":"Open Justice and the Principle of Public Access to Hearings in the Age of Information Technology: Theoretical Perspectives and Comparative Law","authors":"Cécile Chainais","doi":"10.5771/9783845297620-59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845297620-59","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378271,"journal":{"name":"Open Justice","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131883117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open JusticePub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5771/9783845297620-269
J. Jahn
{"title":"German Courts Open Their Doors (a Little Bit) Wider to the Media","authors":"J. Jahn","doi":"10.5771/9783845297620-269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845297620-269","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378271,"journal":{"name":"Open Justice","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133083941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open JusticePub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5771/9783845297620-47
Maciej Szpunar
{"title":"Right to a Public Hearing According to Art 6 ECHR and Art 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU: Constitutional Perspectives","authors":"Maciej Szpunar","doi":"10.5771/9783845297620-47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845297620-47","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378271,"journal":{"name":"Open Justice","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116381649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}