About Us
Justbot aims to help applicants and their lawyers improve the quality of
their applications to the European Court of Human Rights. Since 2014,
over 30% of the applications processed by the Court were rejected as
incomplete in the pre-judicial phase, and of those entering the judicial
phase, only 5% reached the stage of receiving a judgement, while the
large majority was declared inadmissible or struck out of the list. The
development of Justbot is planned over several years and in several
phases. In the first phase, this project provides a digital tool in
English that automates the standard procedure and provides help along
the way. In later phases, we aim to integrate different language
versions and algorithms to automate the writing process.
Justbot is based on a partnership between
Technology for Human Rights (Tech-R)
and the
Center for Experiential Legal Learning (CELL)
at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.
Technology for Human Rights (Tech-R) is a non-profit organisation
founded by graduates of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (UiO) and
Informatics Institute (UiO). Tech-R is dedicated to finding ways of
using technology for the protection and fulfilment of human rights, and
this project is an important step in fulfilling our mission.
The Center for Experiential Legal Learning (CELL) is a centre of
excellence in education at the Faculty of Law (UiO) and it supports
projects that combine law and technology.
We would like to thank
Lovdata/SERI
for financial support and to the staff and students at the
Norwegian Center for Human Rights
for their cooperation in testing the digital form and providing their
feedback. We would like to extend our gratitude to Erik Møse, former
judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen,
professor of human rights at the Faculty of Law and Luca Tosoni, Phd.
fellow in cybersecurity law at SERI for their contribution to the
improvement of Justbots digital form.
We are open to new partners joining as the project moves forward. If you
are interested in collaborating with us, you can reach us by email at
justbot@tech-r.org .
The Tech-R team working on this project is led by Lelia Marcau, who designed Justbot’s architecture and content. Kumar Aman developed the website and created the algorithms which generate the printable application form and Nina Pupalova carried out a full legal text review. Nabil Ouhi designed our logo and the graphics of the website, and Dan Costin is working on developing natural language processing algorithms that will help improve the quality of the applications to the ECtHR.
