Justice Digital Twin for court management. Preliminary reflections on the digital twin of italian trial courts

Disposition time of Italian judicial proceedings ranks well above the European average. In recent years, the problem has been addressed through digitalization policies, which have led to an update in court management techniques. Taking adjudicating judicial offices as the object of investigation, the article highlights the limitations of current technologies supporting court management, which, by only allowing for descriptive analyses of the organization’s current state, leave the task of predicting the impact of decisions on the efficiency of the justice system to managerial intuition. A paradigm shift is proposed by theorizing the Justice Digital Twin, a digital ecosystem that, thanks to a bidirectional real-time data flow and the integration of AI, virtually replicates an adjudicating judicial office not only to describe its state, but also to simulate future scenarios and prescribe improved management solutions, ultimately analysing some of the related legal challenges in light of the AI Act.