Right to Understand and Access to Justice : Interdisciplinary Reflections

Access to justice requires more than formal rights; it demands that individuals actually understand procedures and decisions affecting them. This “right to understand” spans diverse contexts from translation and interpretation in judicial proceedings to explanations of AI-based decision-making. Based on interdisciplinary discussions within the European Campus of City-Universities (EC2U) Alliance, this post tackles the linguistic and technological barriers hindering this right and explores practical paths to realisation.