Algorithmic Decision-making and the Law

Making decisions about decision-making: conscience, regulation, and the law.

The exercise of conscience can have far reaching effects. Poor behaviour can be fatal, as it has occurred in various medical scandals over the years. This article takes a wide definition of conscience as its starting point, and argues that the decision-making processes open to society--legal regulation and professional regulation--can serve to limit the options available to an individual and th...

Summary. Sentencing law and sentencing decision making

The initial context of this research – judicial cooperation with regard to consistency in sentencing This dissertation is part of a research project in which the phenomenon of judicial cooperation in several areas of the law has been taken as a starting point. The concept of judicial cooperation describes informal structures and products thereof of judicial policymaking for the purpose of the s...

Understanding Decision-Making in Healthcare and the Law Shared Decision-Making

Shared decision-making (SDM) between physician and patient is an idea founded in ethics and the law and in some evidence of superior health outcomes. SDM is the practical reconciliation of respect for persons (autonomy) and the monopoly and power of physicians: a middle ground between “nanny-knows-best” paternalism and rampant consumerism. SDM includes the notion of a medical encounter as a “me...

An algorithmic approach to service and content deployment decision making

companies, interconnect a large number of devices as well as persons. Within such networks, content can be exchanged and services can be utilised. The more complex such networks become, the more opportunities might exist to choose a desired service or content. If multiple of those choices need to be made periodically or in short time, manual selection may not be a suitable procedure. From this ...

Decision-making in healthcare and the law: an introduction.