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34 Colum. J. Asian L. 1 (2020-2021)

handle is hein.journals/colas34 and id is 1 raw text is: COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF ASIAN LAW VOLUME 34 FALL 2020 NUMBER 1 ARTICLES HOW WILL TECHNOLOGY CHANGE THE FACE OF CHINESE JUSTICE? Benjamin Minhao Chen* & Zhiyu Li** The People's Republic of China is embarking on an ambitious program to revolutionize its judicial institutions through information technology. Millions of cases have been published online as part of a move towards greater transparency. Courts are piloting artificial intelligence systems that promise to streamline adjudicatory processes and expand access to justice. Although other jurisdictions have employed statistical and computational methods to improve judicial decision-making, few have sought to exploit technology to the same degree. A way of understanding this exceptionalism is to view the integration of technology into law as a microcosm of China's ambitions to emerge as a global artificial intelligence powerhouse and thereby establish itself in the first rank of nations. Seen from a different perspective, however, the technologization of the legal system responds to certain oppositions in Chinese justice. First, courts today are straining under the burden of their caseloads. The contemporary turn towards legality has swelled the number of lawsuits while the professionalization of the judicial corps also culled its ranks. * Assistant Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Ph.D. (U.C. Berkeley). ** Assistant Professor in Chinese Law and Fellow in the Durham Research Methods Centre, Durham University; J.S.D. (U.C. Berkeley). The authors thank the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, for generously funding this research and the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore for their gracious hospitality. This Article has benefited from helpful comments by Calvin Ho, Fu Hualing, He Xin, Jed Kroncke, Mark McLaughlin, Mathias Siems, Angela Zhang as well as participants at the Pacific China Legal Research Forum. All errors remain ours.

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