Strategic Open Justice: How Courts Communicate

Name: Strategic Open Justice: How Courts Communicate
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009102445
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Author: Jane Johnston
ISBN: 9781009102445

By Jane Johnston

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ISBN-13: 9781009102445
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: December 2026
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Strategic Open Justice examines how fusing two fundamental components of modern democratic societies – strategic communication and open justice – has begun a revolutionary change in the way courts manage their public media and communication practice. It explores historic developments that have led to contemporary media and communication operations in the courts and how these both build and challenge public opinion and community confidence in the administration of justice and the judicial arm of government. The cross-disciplinary approach combines theory and practice from law, media and journalism, strategic communication, and narratology in a single, internationally researched volume.

Examining concepts such as publicity, transparency, media platforms, big data, AI, and open justice itself, it presents a thought-provoking analysis of how contemporary open justice developed and changed, the actors involved, how communication and media drive engagement, and the challenges and benefits in modernising court communication practices, cultures, and traditions.

1. Forced open justice

2. The changing shape of open justice

3. Contested concepts: the evolving language of open justice and publicity

4. Contested concepts: news media, journalism and strategic communication

5. #Engage: from social media to judges on tour and other communication tactics

6. Telling the court story: using narratives to interpret and explain open justice

7. Dissimilar cousins: crisis communication and litigation PR

8. Research, public sentiment and AI: using data to inform open justice

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