Call for Papers - 2013 EGPA Annual Conference

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Improving Administrative Sciences Worldwide
2013 EGPA Annual Conference
11-13 September - Edinburgh, Scotland
Permanent Study Group XVIII :
Justice and Court Administration
The 2013 Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration will be held
in Edinburgh, Scotland from 11 to 13 September 2013.
Aim of the Permanent Study Group 18 on Justice and Court Administration
The study group offers an international and multidisciplinary platform to discuss justice
administration policies, justice administration projects related to the functioning of courts
and public prosecution agencies, and to other organizations and institutions in the justice
field.
The study group wants to create a platform, where experiences practices of organisation
development, policy development and policy implementation and research into the functioning
of institutions and organisations in the justice field can be exchanged and discussed. For
researchers it should help them to develop research projects and for persons working in the
justice field the study group is an opportunity to be informed on the latest developments
in research in their field and to influence the development of research. The scope of all this
is to build bridges between national perspectives and to build a transnational professional
community in the EU and beyond, involving both academics and practitioners. The ultimate
aim is to explore common ground for cooperation and exchange in Europe in the justice field
amongst policymakers, managers and academics.
More information about the Permanent Study Group XVIII on Justice and Court Administration
can be found on the Website of EGPA:
http://www.iias-iisa.org/egpa/e/study groups/justice/Pages/default.aspx
The results of the activities of the Permanent Study Group XVIII on Justice and Court
Administration at the last EGPA Annual Conference 2012 in Bergen (Norway) are
documented: http://egpa-conference2012.org/list-of-papers/psg-xviii-justice-andcourt-administration/.
Some of the papers are published in the International Journal for
Court Administration (IJCA): http://www.iaca.ws/ijca-publications.html
The study group is co-chaired by:
• Prof. dr Philip Langbroek, University of Utrecht (the Netherlands)
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Lienhard, University of Bern (Switzerland)
• Mag. Daniel Kettiger, University of Bern (Switzerland)
• Dr. Marco Fabri, Research Institute on Judicial System, National Research Council (Italy)
For more information you can reach the Permanent Study Group XVIII on Justice and Court
Administration by e-mail: egpa@kpm.unibe.ch.
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Call for Papers
Improving Administrative Sciences Worldwide
The EGPA Annual Conference 2013
The Permanent Study Group XVIII on Justice and Court Administration plans 6 sessions of
about half a day. More Information on the EGPA Annual Conference 2013 you can get here:
http://www.egpa-conference-2013.org/
3Subjects for papers (scope)
This year we would like to gather papers in three different areas :
• Justice and court administration in general
• Special session 1: Caseload and caseload management
• Special session 2: Courts in the age of information
The papers for all the sessions shall have a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary approach
to the subject dealt with. Papers may as well contain new theories or hypotheses resulting
from projects, studies or surveys.
Justice and court administration in general
For this area you may submit papers on all subjects concerning the administration or the
management of justice apart from those that are within the scope of the two other sessions:
• Justice administration and politics (e.g. supervision and inspection in justice administration;
independence, autonomy and accountability; justice systems as a policy domain; economic
approaches to court administration; financial relations in justice administration; appointments
and dismissal of judges and prosecutors; the relation between courts and politics).
• Justice administration and society (e.g. social problem solving; access to justice;
positioning courts in society; pre-trial proceedings and mediation; the role of courts
in macro-economics; lay judges and public trust; the involvement of juries in judicial
administration; internationalization of law and society and the organization of transnational
judicial cooperation between national justice systems; ethics in justice administration.).
• Justice chains (e.g. relation between partners in the justice chains: courts and the prosecutions
office, youth protection agencies, prisons, advocates, baillifs, probation agencies,
businesses, law schools; managing expert witnesses; leadership and coordination in
chains with independent professionals; comparisons between courts and other professional
organizations).
• Management of courts in the justice system (organization development in courts; organization
aims and targets in courts; Information technologies and case-flow management;
courts, societal interactions and human resources management; required judicial skills as
a function of juridical and societal needs; judicial specialization versus judges as ‘know all’
and ‘can all’; cooperation between judges and court staff).
Not included in this area are monodisciplinary papers on law matters, e.g. on the
independence of judges or courts or on other subject in the fields of constitutional law.
Special session 1: caseload and caseflow management
To manage courts it is very important to know the workload that is caused by a certain
type of case and to relate it with the available resources. Therefore there is a strong need
for caseload management to have an efficient and effective court functioning. This session
calls for papers on caseload studies and caseload management, concerning theoretic and
methodological (e.g. how to measure the weighted caseload) matters as well as reports on
caseload studies or on the implementation of caseload management systems in courts.
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Special session 2: courts in the age of information
We are living in the information age. This session would like to focus on papers that deals
with courts and the new challenges of the «information society». Papers may focus on the
exchange of information within the judiciary, the information of the public by courts, access
to court information (freedom of information), privacy matters, communication concepts, etc.
If you are not sure about the session in which your idea for a paper fits best, do not hesitate
to get in contact with the study group: egpa@kpm.unibe.ch.
Submission of papers and further schedule
An abstract of the paper should be submitted the 15 May 2013, at the latest, to the study
group via the conference tool: http://www.egpa-conference-2013.org/. If the conference
toll should not work, you may also submit the paper directly to the study group: egpa@kpm.
unibe.ch.
The further schedule is as follows:
Selection and decision by the co-chairs: 1 June 2013
Deadline for submission of the complete full paper: 5 August 2013
Information about the timetable of the study group: 20 August 2013
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