Predicting recidivism is a challenging task, but it helps support courts in their decision-making process. Automated prediction models suffer from low accuracy and are associated with criticism for biased unexplainable decision-making. In this poster, we present different machine-learning just few selected features that achieve accuracies as good use larger sets of features. addition, investiga...

This paper aims at exploring the decisions of highest national courts that had declared CJEU ultra vires, without binding effect in their countries. The same as Czech, Danish and German courts, Constitutional Court Republic Croatia (CCRC) could deliver such a decision according to Article 129 Constitution (CRC) 104 Act on (CACC). In procedure, CCRC should not only respect relevant provisions CR...

'The law imposes the duty of care: but the standard of care is a matter of medical judgment'. So says Lord Scarman, outlining the hitherto accepted 'Bolam' standard, in his recent speech in the House of Lords decision of Sidaway v Bethlem Royal Hospital, reflecting earlier judicial dicta suggesting that it is for the medical profession rather than the courts to determine whether or not a medica...

The phrase “a jury of one’s peers” brings to mind an image of a jury that perfectly mirrors its community in terms of demographic and attitudinal characteristics. In an ideal world, a perfectly representative jury would be best able to fulfill its role as the conscience of the community in judicial decision-making. As a practical matter, however, the legal requirements governing the composition...

Courts, and especially the Supreme Court, frequently engage in moral reasoning as an aspect of their judicial decision making.1 And it is both necessary and desirable that they do So. Although it may be impossible to specify precise rules concerning the occasions for invocation of moral judgments or the weight that such judgments should be given in comparison with other legally relevant factors...

After the watershed 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision Lawrence v.Texas, courts are faced with the daunting task of navigating the bounds of sexual privacy in light of Lawrence's sweeping language and unconventional structure. This Note focuses on the specific issue of state governments regulating sexual device distribution. Evaluating the substantive due process rights of sexual device retailers...

A recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) raises issues of considerable importance to medical practitioners and paediatricians in particular. The case concerns the parental right to withhold consent to medical intervention that doctors believe to be necessary in a child's best interests. The dramatic facts of this case (in which a boy's family felt they had to fight for hi...

The rapid progress of medical technology has resulted in more opportunities to maintain the life of infants in serious and potentially life threatening situations. Whether to treat such infants is a common dilemma. The burden of these difficult decisions rests almost equally on distraught parents and relatives and on the professional staff of neonatal units. Sometimes, either parents or care te...

Computer forensic software is used by lawyers and law enforcement to collect and preserve data in a “forensic image” so that it can be analyzed without changing the original media, and to preserve the chain of custody of the evidence. To the extent there are vulnerabilities in this software, an attacker may be able to hide or alter the data available to a forensic analyst, causing courts to ren...

In their article, How Courts Adjudicate Patent Definiteness and Disclosure, John R. Allison and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette present a comprehensive study—thirty years’ worth of cases—of federal courts’ application of patent law’s written-description, definiteness, and enablement requirements. Using their own hand-coded dataset, Allison and Ouellette measure a number of interesting disparities in c...