For ‘legal constitutionalists’, written constitutions, constitutive of the legal and political system, superior to other legislation, entrenched against change, and enumerating justiciable rights, guarantee equal respect and concern for all citizens. Judicial review is thus an essential support of democracy. In this book, Richard Bellamy offers a robust argument against this view of constitutio...

Judicial proof accrues evidence to confirm or deny hypotheses about world events relevant to a legal case. Software applications that seek to support the process of judicial proof must provide the user with sophisticated capabilities to represent and manipulate evidential reasoning for legal cases. This requires computational techniques to represent the actors, entities, events and context of w...

The relevance and admissibility of expert medical testimony in relation to medical malpractice suits requires a more successful development of formal criteria and a more intentional compliance with efficient judicial procedures. The American judicial system provides an excellent model for implementation of a critical approach to knowledge collection, the evaluation of the validity of scientific...

The Judicial System collects huge amounts of data which, unfortunately, are not turned into useful information for effective decision making. Decision support system can now use advanced technologies such as On-line analytical processing and data mining to deliver advanced capabilities that ensure efficiency. In this work we developed online analytical processing and data mining model in analys...

Courts resolve individual disputes and create principles of law to justify their decisions and guide the resolution of future cases. Those tasks present informational challenges that affect the whole judicial process. Judges must simultaneously learn about (1) the particular facts and legal implications of any dispute; (2) discover the doctrine that appropriately resolves the dispute; and (3) a...

The Federalist is a polemical defense of the proposed 1787 Constitution of the United States. [FN1] The series of eighty-five essays composed by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay was first published in New York newspapers under the collective pseudonym Publius. Through his original reading of The Federalist, Professor Tushnet charts unexplored connections among theories of judicial...