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Hon. A.D. (Dory) Reiling Ph.D. Mag.Iur. (May 24 1950) was a senior judge of the Amsterdam District Court until she retired in 2018. Formerly (2004-2007) a senior judicial reform specialist at the World Bank and IT program manager for the Netherlands judiciary, she was actively involved in designing and building digital procedures for the civil courts in the Netherlands. Dory is the Lead Reporter on the European Law Institute’s project on Digitalisation of Civil Justice in Europe, and section editor of the International Journal for Court Administration. She is a member of the Comité scientifique de l’Institut Européen de l’Expert et de l’Expertise, and, until recently, of the Sectorplan Commission Social Sciences and Humanities at the Netherlands National Organization of Sciences. She is an advisor to Dutch startup Visual Contracts, and the Access to Justice project of Universidad Alfonso Ibañez in Santiago de Chile. She regularly lectures on court information technology and artificial intelligence (AI) at universities, judicial academies and postgraduate schools and works as an IT adviser to judiciaries around the world. She was the acting expert for the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE, Council of Europe) Opinion 14 on information technologies and the courts. She also contributed to the CEPEJ Cyberjustice guidelines. Her work on artificial intelligence includes advising the Parliament of the Netherlands on artificial intelligence for courts, a study by Amnesty International on AI and human rights, the Ethical Charter on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Judicial Systems for the Commission for the Efficiency of Justice of the Council of Europe and the UNESCO Guidelines on the use of AI in courts and tribunals. Her recent articles, including on Courts and AI, were published by the International Journal for Court Administration. Her publications can also be found on Academia, ResearchGate and SSRN, and on www.doryreiling.com,. She is a co-author of the World Bank Handbook on Justice Sector Assessments. Her 2009 book Technology for Justice, How Information Technology can Support Judicial Reform, is widely available in print, on line and as an e-book.