RT Article
T1 El uso de la información judicia
JF Oñati Socio-Legal Series
VO 1
IS 2
SP 1
OP 26
A1 Gessner, Volkmar 1937-2014
LA Spanish
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1687941017
AB Although empirical data on courts and judicial systems are frequently discussed in comparative as well as in economic and sociological studies it turns out that the actors of court reform projects such as judges, law professors, civil servants or politicians don’t make adequate use of them. The paper posits that the reasons are of a structural nature which assigns different social roles to those actors. One solution may be the creation of specialized research institutions. A much wider, more pluralistic and more democratic approach is internet transparency which gives access to all kinds of documents including court statistics and empiricial studies to the general public. In order to get an impression of the practice of court transparency a large number of court websites were visited and ranged according to their content. The top positions reached only some anglosaxon and us-american websites which offer legal, economic, organizational as well as empirical information and even offer assistance for using the data. Those efforts may still not reach their purpose if the information isn’t recalled. In order to measure the actual use of the contents of court websites it is insufficient to count the visits. One needs to know more about the concerns leading to those visits. Fortunately, we have found one (Mexican) website which offers information about the visitors: their concerns, their “story” and even their names and (sometimes) place of residence. These petititions have been carefully evaluated and are discussed in the article. It turns out that empirical information about courts and judicial practices is in high demand. Internet transparency seems to be successful although the best forms of offering information still have to be found.
CN 360
K1 Justiz
K1 Gericht
K1 Transparenz
K1 Court reform
K1 Judicial statistics
K1 Empirical research on courts
K1 Internet transparency
K1 Court websites
K1 Access to judicial information
K1 Users of public information on courts
K1 Use of social science information
K1 Rationalization of political processes
K1 Democratization of court reform
DO 10.15496/publikation-36607