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At the same time, an adequate understanding of the implications of this shift is still missing. This paper focuses on the EU e-Justice experience with the \u2018API-for-Justice\u2019 project, which investigates the challenges of opening up the European e-Justice Digital Service Infrastructure to external service providers by means of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). In particular, the exploration of potential services that can be provided by third parties through APIs for Justice shows the potential for a radical redesign of the justice service provision, where, for example, justice services are not requested by the party but are proposed or initiated by smart components of the infrastructure on the basis of inputs from the environment. In this perspective, smart technology research and, in particular, Brenner (2007)\u2019s discussion on law and smart technology help to uncover the still unclear dynamics of change that characterize one of the key pillars of modern society: justice.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/informatics4040038","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,11,8]],"date-time":"2017-11-08T12:38:48Z","timestamp":1510144728000},"page":"38","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["In Search of Smartness: The EU e-Justice Challenge"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"4","author":[{"given":"Marco","family":"Velicogna","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute on Judicial Systems of the National Research Council of Italy (IRSIG-CNR), Via Zamboni 26, Bologna, 40126, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,11,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"122","DOI":"10.1016\/S0740-624X(01)00066-1","article-title":"Developing fully functional e-government: A four stage model","volume":"18","author":"Layne","year":"2001","journal-title":"Gov. 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