e-Curia or How Technology Changed the Court of Justice of the European Union

The New EU Judiciary is the first book that offers a timely and thorough assessment of recent and ongoing changes to the operation of the European Union Judiciary, and it reflects on the future shape of the EU judicial system. The Court of Justice of the European Union has started to implement the most significant reforms since the Nice Treaty, with notably the doubling of the number of judges at the General Court and the disappearance of the Civil Service Tribunal. Also, the Court has been engaged in implementing e-Curia, a full-fledged e-justice platform that enables the digital exchange of procedural documents with case parties. The chapter - based on an in-depth caser study - analyses how law, technology, and organisation interact during the innovation process and maps out the consequences in terms of courts' functioning. The discussion also distils lessons for e-justice development and the regulation of technologies in highly regulated environments as judicial proceedings.