The causal fairness field guide: Perspectives from social and formal sciences

AN Carey, X Wu - Frontiers in big Data, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Over the past several years, multiple different methods to measure the causal fairness of
machine learning models have been proposed. However, despite the growing number of …

[HTML][HTML] Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms

J Kleinberg, J Ludwig, S Mullainathan… - Journal of Legal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The law forbids discrimination. But the ambiguity of human decision-making often makes it
hard for the legal system to know whether anyone has discriminated. To understand how …

[图书][B] The book of why: the new science of cause and effect

J Pearl, D Mackenzie - 2018 - books.google.com
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding
causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence" Correlation …

The paradox of automation as anti-bias intervention

I Ajunwa - Cardozo L. Rev., 2019 - HeinOnline
The automation of decision-making processes via machine learning algorithmic systems
presents itself as a legal paradox. On one hand, such automation is often an attempt to …

Quantitative legal prediction-or-how i learned to stop worrying and start preparing for the data-driven future of the legal services industry

DM Katz - Emory LJ, 2012 - HeinOnline
Welcome to law's information revolution'-revolution already in 2 progress. While the 2008
financial crisis can be seen as the precipitating event, developments in legal information …

Untangling the causal effects of sex on judging

CL Boyd, L Epstein, AD Martin - American journal of political …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We explore the role of sex in judging by addressing two questions of long‐standing interest
to political scientists: whether and in what ways male and female judges decide cases …

Interventions over predictions: Reframing the ethical debate for actuarial risk assessment

C Barabas, M Virza, K Dinakar, J Ito… - Conference on …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
Actuarial risk assessments are frequently touted as a neutral way to counteract implicit bias
and increase the fairness of decisions made at almost every juncture of the criminal justice …

Race and redistricting

DT Canon - Annual Review of Political Science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This review examines the role of race in the decennial process of redistricting. I review the
scholarly literature on three related questions: What role should racial redistricting play in …

Class certification in the age of aggregate proof

RA Nagereda - NYUL rev., 2009 - HeinOnline
Since the emergence of the modern class action in the 1966 amendments to the Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure, controversy has attended the certification of litigation to proceed on …

Eddie Murphy and the dangers of counterfactual causal thinking about detecting racial discrimination

I Kohler-Hausmann - Nw. UL Rev., 2018 - HeinOnline
The model of discrimination animating some of the most common approaches to detecting
discrimination in both law and social science-the counterfactual causal model-is wrong. In …