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The high-level event brought together presidents and justices of constitutional courts from across Europe, as well as representatives of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. 

At the conference organised by the Constitutional Court of Montenegro, leading European experts in constitutional law and representatives of the judiciary discussed the constitutional and institutional challenges associated with Montenegro’s European integration, the relationship between the domestic constitutional legal order and EU law, and the impact of artificial intelligence on constitutional review, judicial independence and the protection of fundamental rights. 

Villu Kõve took part in the panel discussion “The Use of AI Tools in Constitutional Adjudication: Support or Threat to Constitutional Court Independence”. In his presentation, the President of the Supreme Court noted that artificial intelligence can help reduce courts’ workloads, speed up legal analysis and make case law from different countries more accessible. Automating routine tasks enables justices to devote more time to substantive discussion, weighing constitutional principles and values, and making decisions that require human judgement and responsibility. 

Kõve stressed that AI must never replace justices, but rather serve as a tool to help them: technology can support the preparation of decisions, but final decision-making authority and responsibility must always remain with humans. 

In addition to the President of the Supreme Court, the panel included Martin Kuijer, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, and Lord Sales, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The discussion was moderated by Mattias Guyomar, President of the European Court of Human Rights. 

Further information:

Karin Leichter-Tammisto
Legal Adviser to the President of the Supreme Court