Session at the Digital Justice Summit: Justice as a laboratory
Innovation requires legal freedom, protected testing grounds, sustainable personnel structures and a cultural shift in dealing with change. The 2025 coalition agreement addresses this issue for the first time: experimental and opening clauses are intended to give the federal states more leeway in court organisation, digitisation and judicial jurisdiction. Pilot projects and real-world laboratories are intended as spaces for innovation, with the aim of transferring new models into regular operation. Rob Bors, Principal Product Manager in the ‘Communication Platform for Civil Proceedings’ project, will discuss the key factors for this in this session together with Carsten Karmanski, judge at the Federal Social Court, Stefan Rizor, spokesperson for the board of the Federal Association of Commercial Law Firms in Germany (BWD), and Annika Schröder, Head of Public Affairs at the Legal Tech Association Germany.