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Mask, mask on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? - Face masks and deception detection

A lie has no legs, they say. But what about face masks? One of the many changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic is the decision by a...

Do androids dream about biased judges? – Self-fulfilling prophecies in litigation prediction by AI

A potentially valuable feature of AI applied in the legal field is identifying insightful patterns of how specific courts and judges...

Legal probabilism for dummies – Introduction to the central tenet and Bayes Rule

How can a mathematical theorem originating from the 18th century help us to bust our cheating partner and also analyze, model, and...

Clash of the Titans – Do arbitrators have the cognitive upper hand?

We are all well aware of the tired arguments about the pros of alternative dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation. Many of...

When our judgments drift us to dangerous shores - The anchoring effect in legal decision-making

„We should not moor a ship with one anchor or our life with one hope.” (Epictetus, Greek philosopher) For those familiar with the...

I knew it all along! But did I? - Hindsight bias in negligence cases

When people evaluate events or outcomes after they have occurred, they tend to exhibit the so-called hindsight bias: they judge the event...

One apple a day keeps the bad ruling away - extraneous factors in judicial decisions

When judges make repeated sequential rulings, they simplify their decisions in cases with similar legal characteristics and rule more in...

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