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Oaths and Courts – from Forum to the Future

ASG 2024-2025

This Advanced Study Group centres around the two keywords “Oaths” and “Courts”, and particularly the interaction between them.

Interior of old court building with colons, broad staircase, sculptures in marble. Photo.
Photo: Alex Vasey/Unsplash.

The independence and impartiality of judges, and the ambition to find the truth through judicial proceedings, have been defined by different types of oaths from Antiquity and onwards. The researchers will analyse the history of oaths and of independence and impartiality, and the substantive content of the oaths. The ASG also discusses what the standards of independence and impartiality mean when AI becomes part of decision-making.