Paper's abstract

Sylvie Lebreton-Derrien, Introduction to a "Merely" Virtual Justice
Predictive justice is summarily defined here as the justice algorithms can predict and hence envisaged as a merely virtual justice, that is to say only likely, not acquired in its existence and whose updating is left to the creation, imagination and intuition of users who will turn the prediction either into "a" solution proposed or into "the" solution finally adopted. Predictive justice thus appears as an area of legal prospective for litigants, legal professionals and legal science. This introduction to a merely virtual justice studies, on the one hand, the risk, quite limited, of a supremacy of virtuality, were it to become prescriptive for professionals or dissuasive for litigants; on the other hand, it pictures a bright future of empowerment by virtuality, through a necessary technical understanding of the tools for a predictive justice and an essential ethical breathing of its actors.

Key Words : algorithm virtual mediation
t. 60, 2018: p. 3-21

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