Designed for judges, prosecutors, lawyers, judicial training institutions, and legal educators, the Global Toolkit on AI & the Rule of Law for the Judiciary is a practical gateway into the fast‑evolving world of artificial intelligence in justice. It explains AI in clear, accessible terms, showing how algorithms are already shaping investigations, evidence assessment, case management, and even judicial decision‑making. Through modular lessons, real‑world examples, and guided reflections, it helps readers recognize both the promise of AI for efficiency and access to justice, and the dangers it poses to equality, transparency, privacy, and due process if left unchecked.
The Toolkit can be used directly in courses and workshops, inspiring new activities, teaching methods, and discussions that facilitate and improve the learning experience in judicial training institutions. It equips justice actors to ask the right questions, spot risks like bias and opacity, and uphold human rights standards whenever AI enters the courtroom.
Through this Toolkit and a growing portfolio of trainings, partnerships, and policy support, the AI &Rule of Law programme is empowering judiciaries worldwide to steer AI in service of justice.
M. Stankovich, Ivana Feldfeber, Y. Quiroga et al.· 5 citations
This editorial introduces the special issue on the legal-technical governance and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa, the product of a project launched by the Data Science Law Lab in collaboration with the Data Science for Social Impact research group at the University of Pretoria. It situates the five peer-reviewed contributions within a legal-technical approach to AI governance: a transdisciplinary approach in which the legal and the technical are fused to add nuance to regulatory forms and practices and to close the legal-technical gap in AI governance and regulation. The contributions move from conceptual foundations, where legal-technical governance is advanced as an analytical framework, through continental norm-making on the transition from African Union soft law to an AI treaty and national policy design on intellectual property in African AI strategies, to the operation of AI systems in practice, addressing the algorithmic sovereignty gap in AI-enabled surveillance in South Africa and Nigeria and the legal status of predictive policing in the fight against cybercrime in Nigeria.
Chijioke I. Okorie, Vukosi Marivate· Potchefstroom Electronic Law...· 0 citations
