Hands On Training

Open Justice

New York University

via

edX

Course Features

Duration

10 weeks

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Limited Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Beginner

Effort

3 hours per week

Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Open justice is a growing movement to use new technologies, including big data, digital platforms, blockchain and more, to improve our legal system by making the workings of our legal institutions easier to understand, scrutinize and, we hope, improve. Thanks to new tools the opportunity to make improvements has never been greater. This course is designed to help the public entrepreneur – passionate individuals like you. Whether you are a lawyer, a judge, a technologist or just a concerned citizen – the course will help you to use new technologies to take action to increase efficiency, improve equity, fight corruption and enhance legitimacy in the third branch of government.

Instead of long lectures, this online course consists of ten short modules which will serve as brief introductions to different aspects of open justice. These ‘mini-lectures’ of ten minutes each are combined with interviews with leading practitioners from around the world who are collecting the data, conducting the analysis, creating the apps, and building the movement that helps us all to better know and assert our rights.

We wish to acknowledge the Commission of the Mexican Federal Electoral Court as the founder of this MOOC.

Course Overview

International Faculty

Post Course Interactions

Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Understand what open justice is and why it matters

Learn the specific ways in which technology has the potential to impact the judicial system and

Inspire you to be part of the movement and know how to get involved, whether by helping others or starting your own project.

Course Content

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Module 1: From Transparency to Open Data and Open Justice

Module 2: Open Justice Technologies and The Mindset of the Public Entrepreneur

Module 3: Open Justice for Efficiency

Module 4: Open Justice for Equity

Course Instructors

Beth Noveck

Professor, Technology, Culture, & Society at New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Beth Simone Noveck directs the Governance Lab (GovLab) and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. She is a Professor in Technology, Culture, and Society and affiliated faculty at the C...