Silvia Barona Vilar
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Silvia Barona Vilar is a prominent legal scholar whose research sits at the intersection of procedural law, digital transformation, and the future of justice systems. Her work focuses primarily on the profound implications of artificial intelligence, algorithmic decision-making, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) for criminal and civil justice processes. Through her influential 2019 study on cyber-industry and criminal procedure — her most cited work with 14 citations — she pioneered critical examination of how expert systems, computational models, and robotization are reshaping judicial practice in Spain and beyond. Barona Vilar consistently interrogates whether these technological advances strengthen or fundamentally undermine procedural guarantees and fundamental rights, a tension she continues to explore in her 2024 work on algorithmic justice. Her scholarship on civil justice further highlights the pressing demands for efficiency and celerity in twenty-first century court systems. Accumulating citations across multiple interconnected studies, she has established herself as a leading voice warning of both the promise and peril of datafication in legal systems, making her research essential reading for anyone navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of digital justice and procedural law reform.
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