Automating Intervention in Chinese Justice
Smart Courts and Supervision Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4789787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Straton Papagiannea (0000-0001-7490-0536) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 463-489 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Law and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2052-9015 • E-ISSN: 2052-9023 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/als.2023.5 |
| OpenAlex | W4385240567 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article examines how smart courts enhance the reform of judicial responsibility and the "trial supervision and management" mechanism. It holds that smart courts, while meant to provide better judicial services and improve access to justice, have the additional goal of enhancing the restructuring of accountability and power structures. It argues that automation and digitization help institutionalize and codify political supervision. Smart courts help resolve tension between the two opposing requirements of Chinese courts to maintain legal rationality and independent adjudication on the one hand, and the need for flexibility to allow intervention on the other. This article provides an account of the automation of "trial supervision and management" and explores the role of technology in enhancing political intervention in China's legal system. This investigation draws on internal court reports and central and local judicial documents, supplemented with a review of Chinese empirical scholarship
Accountability · Adjudication · Economic Justice · Intervention (counseling · Judicial reform · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Sociology · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Psychology · Law · Public Administration
Courts
Authoritarian Legality in China
Sovereign Power and the Law in China
Mass Digitization of Chinese Court Decisions
Pressures on Chinese Judges under Xi
Court Funding and Judicial Corruption in China
Judicial Innovation and Local Politics
Judicial Independence and Judicial Accountability
The “Production” of Corruption in China's Courts
Judicial visibility under responsive authoritarianism
Severe and Swift Justice in China
The Rise of the Discipline and Inspection Commission, 1927–2012
China's Grand Design of People's Smart Courts
The Power Logic of Justice in China
Towards judicial transparency in China
What Gets Measured Gets Done
An Artificial-Intelligence-Based Semantic Assist Framework for Judicial Trials
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
Repositioning Documents in Social Research
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |