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Administrative Law In The Automated State, Cary Coglianese
Administrative Law In The Automated State, Cary Coglianese
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In the future, administrative agencies will rely increasingly on digital automation powered by machine learning algorithms. Can U.S. administrative law accommodate such a future? Not only might a highly automated state readily meet longstanding administrative law principles, but the responsible use of machine learning algorithms might perform even better than the status quo in terms of fulfilling administrative law’s core values of expert decision-making and democratic accountability. Algorithmic governance clearly promises more accurate, data-driven decisions. Moreover, due to their mathematical properties, algorithms might well prove to be more faithful agents of democratic institutions. Yet even if an automated state were …
Transparency Through Insurance: Mandates Dominate Discretion, Tom Baker
Transparency Through Insurance: Mandates Dominate Discretion, Tom Baker
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This chapter describes how liability insurance has contributed to the transparency of the civil justice system. The chapter makes three main points. First, much of what we know about the empirics of the civil justice system comes from access to liability insurance data and personnel. Second, as long as access to liability insurance data and personnel depends on the discretion of liability insurance organizations, this knowledge will be incomplete and, most likely, biased in favor of the public policy agenda of the organizations providing discretionary access to the data. Third, although mandatory disclosure of liability insurance data would improve transparency, …
The Creativity Effect (With C. Sprigman), Christopher J. Buccafusco
The Creativity Effect (With C. Sprigman), Christopher J. Buccafusco
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