Zheng Sophia Tang (Wuhan University): Smart Court in Cross-Border Litigation
Current Research in Private International Law
- Date: Jan 4, 2022
- Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
- Location: online
About the speaker:
Zheng (Sophia) Tang is a professor at the Wuhan University Institute of
International Law, an Associate Dean at the Wuhan University Academy of
International Law and Global Governance (China Top Thinktank), and a visiting
professor at the Newcastle University. She is a barrister, an arbitrator and a
mediator.
About the topic:
Smart courts
integrate modern technology in the court proceedings to improve the efficiency
of trial. It can particularly benefit cross-border litigation, which is
remarked by the cost and inconvenience for a party to take part in proceedings
abroad. However, the current construction of smart courts primarily focuses on
domestic trials and leaves the cross-border litigation behind. Although
technology can improve procedural efficiency, legal obstacles in cross-border
litigation make the efficiency impossible to achieve. Identity verification,
service of proceedings, evidence and hearing are four examples demonstrating
how the current law, especially the old-fashioned concept of sovereignty,
hampers the functioning of smart courts in cross-border litigation. In order to
fully embrace the benefit of smart courts, the concept of judicial sovereignty
needs to be reconceptualised in the age of technology.
A video of the lecture can be found here for streaming:
Zheng Sophia Tang (Wuhan University): Smart Court in Cross-Border Litigation
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About the virtual workshop series:
The virtual workshop series “Current Research in Private International Law" is organised by Prof. Dr. Ralf Michaels and Michael Cremer. The series features guest speakers and Institute staff members who present and discuss their work on current developments and research topics in private international law. The workshops are geared to scholars who are researching in the field of private international law, but attendance is open to all individuals having an academic interest (including doctoral candidates and students).