Francesco Contini
Francesco Contini è dirigente di ricerca presso l’Istituto di Informatica Giuridica e Sistemi Giudiziari del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IGSG-CNR). Dal 1991 studia i sistemi giudiziari dal punto di vista delle scienze politiche. La sua ricerca si concentra su alcuni dei principali fattori di cambiamento dei sistemi giudiziari, come le tecnologie dell’informazione, la managerializzazione e, più in generale, le politiche attuate per migliorare la qualità della giustizia. Ha analizzato la riconfigurazione istituzionale, tecnologica e organizzativa dei sistemi giudiziari europei in un’ottica comparata, utilizzando metodi che spaziano dall’analisi etnografica a quella statistica. Ritiene che i sistemi giudiziari siano progettati per erogare giustizia in senso pieno, come stabilito dall’art. 6.1 della CEDU, e non solo per gestire pratiche e risolvere casi.
Le sue ricerche sono integrate da incarichi in progetti di assistenza tecnica per il Consiglio d’Europa, l’Ufficio delle Nazioni Unite per il Controllo della Droga e il Crimine, la Banca Interamericana di Sviluppo, la Banca Mondiale e diverse ONG.
Pubblicazioni in evidenza
Trasformazione digitale dell’amministrazione della giustizia
Digital technologies for better justice. A toolkit for action, with Antonio Cordella. Inter-American Development Bank, 2020
https://publications.iadb.org/en/digital-technologies-for-better-justice-a-toolkit-for-action
The Circulation of Agency in E-Justice, with Giovan Francesco Lanzara (eds). Springer, 2014
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-7525-1
ICT and innovation in the public sector, with Giovan Francesco Lanzara (eds.) Palgrave, 2009
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230227293
Law and technology in civil judicial proceedings, with Antonio Cordella, in Oxford Handbook of law and technology regulation. Roger Brownsword, Eloise Scotford and Karen Yeung (Eds.). Oxford: OUP, 2016
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/27999/chapter/211734972?login=true
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199680832.013.47
Intelligenza artificiale e sistemi giudiziari
Artificial intelligence and real decisions: predictive systems and generative AI vs. emotive-cognitive legal deliberations, with Alessandra Minissale and Stina Bergman Blix. Frontiers in Sociology, 9, 2024
doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1417766
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1417766/full
AI Accountability in Judicial Proceedings: An Actor–Network Approach, with Elena Alina Ontanu and Marco Velicogna, Laws 13: 71, 2024
doi.org/10.3390/laws13060071
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/13/6/71
Unboxing Generative AI for the Legal Professions: Functions, Impacts and Governance, International Journal for Court Administration, 15(2), 2024
http://doi.org/10.36745/ijca.604
https://iacajournal.org/articles/10.36745/ijca.604
Artificial Intelligence and the Transformation of Humans, Law and Technology Interactions in Judicial Proceedings, in Law, Technology and Humans, 2(1), 2020
doi.org/10.5204/lthj.v2i1.1478
Governance e qualità della giustizia
Handle with Care Assessing and designing methods for the evaluation and development of the quality of justice (Ed.) IRSIG-CNR, 2017
https://www.academia.edu/36129389/Handle_with_Care_Assessing_and_designing_methods_for_the_evaluation_and_development_of_the_quality_of_justice
Evaluating Judicial Performance, Special issue edited with Sharyn Roach Anleu and David Rottman. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 4(5), 2014
https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/issue/view/36
Judicial Evaluation: Traditions, Innovations and Proposals for Measuring the Quality of Court Performance, with Richard Mohr, VDM, 2008
https://www.academia.edu/1874307/Judicial_Evaluation_Traditions_Innovations_and_Proposals_for_Measuring_the_Quality_of_Court_Performance
Crisi e ingiustizie sociali
Condition Critical Symposium. Special Section of the Journal edited with Richard Mohr and Patricia Branco. Law Technology and Human, 5(1), 2023
https://lthj.qut.edu.au/issue/view/127
Norm, normal and disruption: The role of law, knowledge and technologies in normalising social life. Special issue edited with Richard Mohr and Patricia Branco, Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 12/3, 2022
https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/issue/view/111