Why a Human Court? On the Right to a Human Judge in the Context of the Fair Trial Principle
Journal: eucrim – The European Criminal Law Associations Forum
Year: 2023

For centuries, “doing justice” has been a fundamentally anthropocentric effort: Humankind has been placed at the centre of emerging paradigms and systems such as (quite self-evidently) human rights, constitutionalism, and – gradually – also international law. In addition to focusing adjudication on individuals and their litigated interests, this has meant an administration of justice taking the form of human activity. The advent of automated public decision-making, including adjudication based o