Professor Steven Chien recently delivered a presentation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Law Review Symposium: Judicial Conduct, Ethics & Reform. His article “Open Court and Social Trust: Evidence-Based Criminal Justice 2.0,” argues that the current fragmented approach to data collection and sharing, accompanied by the coercion-based culture of the criminal justice system and the lack of sufficient peer review mechanisms, raises pressing challenges and concerns about institutional legitimacy. It further argues that high-quality data and systemic transparency play a critical role in cultivating social trust. It cautions against the dangers of biased data and antiquated measures of success for the judiciary, as these could jeopardize equitable justice and democracy. His article also explores the ethics of collecting, preparing, analyzing, and integrating judicial data in this emerging evidence-based criminal justice system.