CiNii Books - Computer-aided judicial analysis : predicting, prescribing, and administering

Decision-aiding software, the underpinning of computer-aided judicial analysis, can facilitate the prediction of how cases are likely to be decided, prescribe decisions that should be reached in such cases, and help administrate more efficiently the court process. It can do so, says Nagel, by listing past cases on each row of a spreadsheet matrix, by listing predictive criteria in the columns, and in general by showing for each factual element the estimated probability of winning a case. The software aggregates the information available and deduces likely outcomes. But it can also prescribe judicial decisions by listing alternatives in the rows, the goals to be achieved in the columns, and by showing relations between alternatives in the cells. By similar means decision-aiding software can also help perform administrative tasks, such as rationally assigning judges or other personnel to cases, and by sequencing cases to reduce the time consumed by each case. In Part I, Nagel provides an overview of computer-aided analysis and the role of decision-aiding software in the legal process. In the second part he deals with judicial prediction from prior cases and from present facts; and in the third part he emphasizes the prescribing role of judges, particularly in deciding the rules that ought to be applied in civil and criminal procedures. Nagel also covers computer-aided mediation and provides a new perspective on judicial decisions. Then, in Part IV, he treats at length the process of judicial administration and how to improve its efficiency. Of particular interest to court personnel will be the benefits to be derived from reducing delays and in the docketing and sequencing of cases.

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An Overview of the Subject Computer-Aided Judicial Decision-Making Decision-Aiding Software and the Law Rule-Applying and Fact-Finding Judicial Prediction from Cases Judicial Prediction from Facts Improving the Effectiveness and Equity of the Judicial Process Decision-Aiding Software and Criminal-Civil Procedure Deciding How to Provide Representation for the Poor Computer-Aided Mediation Superoptimum Solutions to Procedural Controversies Judicial Assignment Delay Reduction Concepts Delay Reduction Methods Optimum Sequencing of Cases

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