Rewatch the 2023 Digital Future of Justice Hackathon
Experience the excitement of the two-day event in
Paris, France!
What was the focus of last year's hackathon?
In the bustling center of Paris, the “Digital Future of Justice” hackathon brought together a vibrant mix of legal experts and tech innovators. Organized by the Council of Europe, this forward-thinking event, known as TJENI, set out to revolutionize the justice system for the digital age. The hackathon saw enthusiastic teams from six different nations—Cyprus, Greece, Lithuania, Romania, Poland, and Norway—collaborate and compete, breaking new ground in legal technology.
Winners of the Digital Future of Justice
Winners! – TEAM KIS-keep it simple
Norway
Our tool will solve the difficulties and inefficiencies of current HUDOC platform by visualising relevant and advanced cases related to the ECHR keywords. It is currently inefficient and time consuming to go through the cases and there is a possibility for cases to be missed due to the volume of cases. Our tool will be directed towards legal experts including judges, lawyers, and legal scholars to help them efficiently find relevant cases. However, future developments would potentially allow non-legal experts to use the tool as well.
2nd Place – TEAM LegaRO
Romania
LegaRO wishes to systematise court decisions as part of this rule of openness by maintaining adaptability through the implementation of several sub-models, taking into account the security needs raised by the sensitive nature of the matters addressed in jurisprudence, all whilst keeping in mind that such a project must be scalable in order to maintain the pace of an ever-evolving reality.
3rd Place – TEAM PolOn
Poland
The proposed solution operated by automatically analysing the content of domestic case law and categorising it, aligning it with specific convention content structured through official keywords. The outcome will be an effective and easy-to-use search engine powered by AI, where one can input any Convention article or keyword, resulting in a list of matching judgments from the national court. Looking ahead, our solution could equally categorise ECHR case law.
Prize pool!
The winner of the event received €3,000.00!
The winning team was also invited to the Cyberjustice Conference organised in Strasbourg on 24 November 2023 by the Institute des Etudes et de la Recherche sur le Droit et la Justice, Cyberjustice Laboratory, University of Strasbourg and the Council of Europe.
The teams awarded with 2nd and 3rd place received
subscriptions/certificates as prizes.
They were our amazing judges and mentors in Paris!
Yannick Menneceur
Head of Central Division in the Directorate-General for Human Rights and the Rule of Law at the Council of Europe
Elena Yurkina
Head of Unit for Innovative Solutions for Human Rights and Justice at Council of Europe
Edouard Rottier
Judge; Member of the documentation, studies and reports department and Director of the Open data project at the French Court of Cassation
Tigran Karapetyan
Head of Transversal Challenges and Multilateral Projects Task Force Division at Council of Europe
Biljana Nikolic
Senior Project Officer, Innovative Solutions for Human Rights and Justice, DGI, Council of Europe
Stéphane Nafir-Gouillon
Judge; Head of Studies and Research at the Institute of Studies and Research on Law and Justice (IERDJ)
Mentors
Øystein Flø Baste
Research Assistant at University of Oslo (Norway)
Thomas Lampert
Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Télécom Physique Strasbourg (France)
Cosmin Sterea-Grossu
Judge, Head of IT at the Romanian Superior Council of Magistracy
Enrico Francesconi
Research Director at the Legal Information Institute of the National Research Council of Italy and Policy Officer at the European Parliament
Laris Vrahimis
Lawyer and Founder of cylaw.org, Cyprus's leading online open access legal database
Amaury Fouret
Data Scientist, French Court of Cassation
