Discovery in Agency Adjudication

Adjudication in Independent Tribunals: The Role of an Alternative Agency Structure

Utilitarian Adjudication

In this paper I offer a defense of the view that judges should decide cases in accordance with act utilitarianism: i.e., in whatever way maximizes overall well-being. To advance this thesis, I first briefly give reasons for dissatisfaction with the commonsense thought that judges should just decide cases as the law requires. I then briefly argue for the claim that all moral agents, including ju...

Democratic Propensity for Adjudication ∗

* This is the third chapter of a draft book manuscript, " Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules. " The full manuscript is available upon request. [email protected].

Diversity and adjudication

This paper takes an axiomatic and calculational view of diversity (or “Nversion programming”), where multiple implementations of the same specification are executed in parallel to increase dependability. The central notion is “adjudication”: once we have multiple, potential different, outcomes, how do we come to a single result? Adjudication operators are explicitly defined and some general pro...

Government Agency Network Discovery via Hyperlinks and Datalinks

In order to improve government transparency and promote interagency coordination, interagency networks have been investigated by social science researchers using data collected using traditional manual mechanisms such as interview and survey. In this paper, we show that World Wide Web (WWW) and Linked Open Data (LOD) can be used to automatically generate interagency networks and thus promote in...