CORDIS · JUST-IN

JUSTICE-IN-CONTEXT (JUST-IN): SOCIAL PRACTICES, LOCAL REALITIES, AND THE EVERYDAY WORK OF JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE IN EUROPE

Код

JUST-IN

Програма

HORIZON

Процедура

HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-DEMOCRACY-11

Статус

SIGNED

Период

01.10.2026 – 30.09.2029

Официални данни · CORDIS · синхронизирано 18.10.2026 03:29 · официален запис

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JUST-IN addresses one of the most pressing challenges facing the European Union: the erosion of judicial independence and the rule of law from within Member States. While existing EU mechanisms, such as the Justice Scoreboard and the Rule of Law Reports, provide important monitoring tools, they remain largely top-down, focusing on formal safeguards and institutional indicators. This approach fails to capture the everyday practices, informal networks, and cultural meanings that shape how judicial independence operates in practice. JUST-IN departs from this narrow perspective by embedding judicial independence in its lived institutional, organisational, and cultural contexts. It advances a bottom-up methodology that integrates local meanings, informal practices, and participatory insights into European monitoring efforts, ensuring that rule of law indicators reflect not only law in books but also law in action. Combining doctrinal analysis, socio-legal research, political science, and data science, the project employs a mixed-method design. Citizens’ Observatories of Judicial Independence will gather grassroots perspectives from judges, clerks, lawyers, civil society, and court users, complementing systematic coding and analysis of national case law with AI-assisted qualitative data methods. Particular attention will be paid to contemporary challenges such as judicial managerialism and the integration of artificial intelligence in courts, both of which reshape workloads, case allocation, and reasoning patterns, often in ways that risk undermining independence. Findings will feed into the Embedded Judicial Independence Tracker (EJIT), an innovative online platform providing reliable, multilingual, and up-to-date data that complements EU-level monitoring instruments. In parallel, the project will pioneer a cross-citation support tool, fostering judicial cooperation through transnational referencing while respecting national diversity.

Официални данни · CORDIS · синхронизирано 18.10.2026 03:29 · официален запис · Лиценз: © European Union, CC BY 4.0 (Commission reuse policy).