Seminar 217, Risk Management: Machines Learning Justice: A New Approach to the Problems of Inconsistency and Bias in Adjudication

Seminar 217, Risk Management: Machines Learning Justice: A New Approach to the Problems of Inconsistency and Bias in Adjudication

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Oct 25, 2016, 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM | 639 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Ryan Copus and Hannah Laqueur, UC Berkeley (Speaker - Featured)
Abstract: We offer a two-step algorithmic approach to the problems of inconsistency and bias in legal decision making. First, we propose a new tool for reducing inconsistency: Judgmental Bootstrapping Models (“JBMs”) built with machine learning methods.