• General Assembly (online)

    General Assembly of members of the Justice Administration Research Association

  • Informal Judicial Institutions

    E-Seminar

    Speakers: Katarína Šipulová (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), David Kosař (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Convenor: Marco Fabri

  • Reviving the Italian Court System: The Role of Judicial Assistants

    E-Seminar

    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 [...]

  • Judicial Stress: The Unmentionable and the Undeniable

    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 [...]

  • 2025 JAR-Association Conference

    University of Limoges Limoges, France

    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 [...]

    €100.00 – €130.00
  • SimpliVi Conference (Collaboration with JAR-A)

    Court of Appeal Wrocław, Poland Wroclaw, Poland

    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). [...]

  • The need to empower more RoL individuals with independence, rather than empowering the formal institutions — Georgia’s experience

    E-Seminar

    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 [...]

  • Judges and Social Media: Promises and Pitfalls?

    E-Seminar

    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 [...]