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 …
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence" Correlation …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …