Welcome to ERA – Academy of European Law

Objective

This seminar addresses various challenges linked to digitalisation that judges, prosecutors and lawyers in private practice working in the field of EU criminal justice will have to face in the years ahead. 

Some of these challenges such as the exchange of electronic evidence, videoconferencing, use of open-source intelligence, artificial intelligence, digital technology, etc. will become the “new normal”.

This event is part of a large-scale project sponsored by the European Commission entitled “Judicial training to prepare criminal justice professionals for #digitalisation and #artificialintelligence”. It consists of 12 seminars to take place in various EU cities over the period 2024-2027.

Key topics

• Technical issues (internet caches, proxy servers, encryption, deep/dark web, etc.)
• Legal issues (evaluation of the search results, reliability and credibility of authentication, search across jurisdictions)
• Challenges posed by websites, social networks, emails and other computer-generated or stored documents
• Presenting internet searches in court
• e-Evidence Digital Exchange System (e-EDES)
• Videoconferencing
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Participants will receive a fixed contribution towards their travel expenses and are asked to book their own travel. The condition for payment of this contribution is to sign all attendance sheets at the event. No supporting documents are needed. For further details please see the project subsite.

Who should attend?

Participation is only open to judges, prosecutors, court staff and lawyers in private practice from eligible EU Member States participating in the EU Justice Programme (Denmark does not participate) including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo* and Ukraine (*this designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence).