This paper takes a sceptical look at the possibility of advanced computer technology replacing judges. Looking first at the example of alternative dispute resolution, where considerable progress has been made in developing tools to assist parties to come to agreement, attention then shifts to evaluating a number of other algorithmic instruments in a criminal justice context. The possibility of human judges being fully replaced within the courtroom strictu sensu is examined, and the various elements of the judicial role that need to be reproduced are considered. Drawing upon understandings of the legal process as an essentially socially determined activity, the paper sounds a note of caution about the capacity of algorithmic approaches to ever fully penetrate this socio-legal milieu and reproduce the activity of judging, properly understood. Finally, the possibilities and dangers of semi-automated justice are reviewed. The risks of seeing this approach as avoiding the recognised problems of fully automated decision-making are highlighted, and attention is directed towards the problems that remain when an algorithmic frame of reference is admitted into the human process of judging.

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重新设计正义？机器人法官、计算机法庭和（半）自动化法律决策

本文对先进的计算机技术取代法官的可能性持怀疑态度。首先看替代性争议解决的例子，在开发工具以帮助各方达成协议方面取得了相当大的进展，然后注意力转移到评估刑事司法背景下的许多其他算法工具。审查了在严格意义上的法庭内完全取代人类法官的可能性，并考虑了需要复制的司法角色的各种要素。借助将法律程序理解为本质上由社会决定的活动的理解，该论文对算法方法的能力提出了警告，即算法方法能够完全渗透到这种社会法律环境并再现正确理解的判断活动。最后，回顾了半自动司法的可能性和危险。将这种方法视为避免公认的全自动决策问题的风险得到了强调，并且注意力集中在当算法参考框架被允许进入人类判断过程时仍然存在的问题。