Convenor: Simone Benvenuti, University of Roma Tre Speaker: Anna Madarasi, Judge, co-chair of the Association of Hungarian Judges Res Iudicata

Convenor: Alina Ontanu, Assistant Professor, Tilburg Law School, Netherlands Speaker: Eleonora Ferrari, PhD candidate and research assistant University of Bologna, Italy "This presentation explores the impact of judicial assistants in Italy and their potential role in reducing case backlogs and managing court workload. The research addresses the challenges of measuring their effectiveness, considering the various [...]

Convenor: Alina Ontanu, Assistant Professor, Tilburg Law School, Netherlands Speaker: Dr Carly Schrever, Director, Human Ethos: Wellbeing for Judges and Lawyers Associate Professor, Law School, University of Western Australia The UN General Assembly recently voted to declare 25 July the International Day for Judicial Wellbeing. This is off the back of a growing global conversation [...]

Registration is now open for JAR-Association's  second Conference, which will take place in Limoges, France from 10-13 June 2025.  The formal conference sessions on 11-12 June will take place in the Law Faculty, at the University of Limoges. As indicated on the program, we hope to organise an informal catch up for delegates on the [...]

Dear members, We are happy to announce a collaboration between JAR-Association and the SimpliVi Project - “Simplifying Cross-Border Judicial Videoconferencing in Europe” with regards to their final event in mid-September. The conference is organized by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice (Project Coordinator) in collaboration with Court of Appeal Wrocław (Project Partner and Conference Host). [...]

Convenor: Jesper Wittrup, Consultant, JAR-Association Governing Board Member Speaker: Giorgi Chkheidze, freelance international and national expert, specializing in the rule of law and human rights, former director of the USAID rule of law initiative inGeorgia Since restoring its independence in 1991, Georgia has embarked on a series of ambitious judicial reform campaigns, modeling its institutions [...]

Convenor:  Dr Anne Wallace, JAR-Association President Speaker:  Silvio Roberto Vinceti (Roberto Ruffilli Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bologna, Department of Political and Social Science) Social media have become a central platform for all kinds of relationships, communities, and social interactions. Quite unsurprisingly, judges have also been drawn to social media. While in some respects [...]

Convenor:  Marco Fabri, Senior Researcher IIGSG, Bologna, Italy, Immediate Past-President, JAR-Association Speaker: Professor Anne Sanders, University of Bielefeld, Germany The coalition agreement of the (relatively) new German government declares that the German judiciary should be supported to increase its quality through streamlined rules of procedure, digitization including the cautious use of AI and the hiring of [...]

Convenor: Professor Anne Sanders, Bielefeld University, Germany Speakers: Friedrich Zillessen, Project Lead, Germany

Convenor: Dr Gar Yein Ng, University of Buckingham, United Kingdom Speaker: Georg Stawa, Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice

Convenor:  Associate Professor Simone Benvenuti, University of Roma Tre, Italy Speaker: Alfonso Egea de Haro, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain