Judicial Applications of Artificial Intelligence / Edition 1

by Giovanni Sartor, L. Karl Branting

Overview

The judiciary is in the early stages of a transformation in which AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology will help to make the judicial process faster, cheaper, and more predictable without compromising the integrity of judges' discretionary reasoning. Judicial decision-making is an area of daunting complexity, where highly sophisticated legal expertise merges with cognitive and emotional competence. How can AI contribute to a process that encompasses such a wide range of knowledge, judgment, and experience? Rather than aiming at the impossible dream (or nightmare) of building an automatic judge, AI research has had two more practical goals: producing tools to support judicial activities, including programs for intelligent document assembly, case retrieval, and support for discretionary decision-making; and developing new analytical tools for understanding and modeling the judicial process, such as case-based reasoning and formal models of dialectics, argumentation, and negotiation.
Judges, squeezed between tightening budgets and increasing demands for justice, are desperately trying to maintain the quality of their decision-making process while coping with time and resource limitations. Flexible AI tools for decision support may promote uniformity and efficiency in judicial practice, while supporting rational judicial discretion. Similarly, AI may promote flexibility, efficiency and accuracy in other judicial tasks, such as drafting various judicial documents. The contributions in this volume exemplify some of the directions that the AI transformation of the judiciary will take.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792354727
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/31/1998
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Judicial Applications of Artificial Intelligence.- Automating Judicial Document Drafting: A Discourse-Based Approach.- Criminal Sentencing and Intelligent Decision Support.- The Application of Judicial Intelligence and ‘Rules’ to Systems Supporting Discretionary Judicial Decision-Making.- Modelling Reasoning with Precedents in a Formal Dialogue Game.- The Judge and the Computer: How Best ‘Decision Support’?.- Judicial Decisions and Artificial Intelligence.

Editorial Reviews

Seven articles review the current state of research on applying artificial intelligence to the judiciary, examining such areas as prototypes and applications, formal analysis of the basic aspects of judicial reasoning, and the methodological analysis of judicial decision making. Specific topics include a discourse- based approach to automating judicial document drafting, support for criminal sentencing, and modelling reasoning with precedents in a formal dialogue game. Reprinted from v.6, no.2-4 (1998). No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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