Rate My Professor Tania Sourdin

Her research focuses on justice innovation, technology including artificial intelligence, ethics in litigation, conflict avoidance, dispute resolution, and judicial system innovations, with particular attention to ethical and practical issues in AI governance, access to justice, and complaints handling. She has taught judges in programs covering technology use, court craft, civil procedure, decision-making, complex behaviour, and judicial orientation, and led justice innovation projects demonstrating significant impacts, such as research indicating up to a $5 return per dollar invested in complaints handling. Professor Sourdin has authored key books including 'Legal Aspects of Autonomous Systems' (2024), 'Judges, Technology and Artificial Intelligence: The Artificial Judge' (2021), 'Digital Technology and Justice: Justice Apps' (2020), and multiple editions of 'Alternative Dispute Resolution' from 2002 to 2020. Among her over 125 journal articles are 'Judge v Robot: Artificial Intelligence and Judicial Decision-Making' (2020) and 'The Privilege and the Pressure: Judges' and Magistrates' Reflections on the Sources and Impacts of Stress in Judicial Work' (2024). She contributes to national and international boards, committees, and working groups, and collaborates on First Nations-led research into informal justice and peacebuilding.