International Judicial Assistance: Procedural Chaos and a Program for Reform

First Steps to Judicial Reform

Procedural and Legal Motivations to Correct for Perceived Judicial Biases

The question of whether procedural or legal concerns per se can motivate corrections of jurors’ judgments when in conflict with accuracy concerns was examined. Mock jury members were exposed to diagnostic incriminating evidence that was obtained in either serious or mild violation of due process and that was ruled as admissible or inadmissible. When the evidence was obtained in serious violatio...

The UNCAC and judicial corruption : Requirements and avenues for reform

Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). Where it does not exist, pliant prosecutors, judges, and court staff may ignore criminal acts of corruption or have them improperly dismissed. Biased appointments, promotions, and disciplinary processes mean that justice sector staff may be ill-equipped to handle complex cases, including those involving corruption. The UNCAC's unique provisions for...

Defeasibility in Judicial Opinion: Logical or Procedural?

While defeasibility in legal reasoning has been the subject of recent scholarship, it has yet to be studied in the context of judicial opinion. Yet, being subject to appeal, judicial decisions can default for a variety of reasons. Prakken (2001) argued that the defeasibility affecting reasoning involved in adversarial legal argumentation is best analysed as procedural rather than logical. In th...

A Program for Studying Chaos

“Adventures in Bifiircations and Chaos” (ABC) is a user$iiendly program for IBM-compatible PCs which has been designed for exploring bifiircations and chaos in the Chua oscillator paradigm. ABC calculates and draws equilibrium points, eigencalues, eigenspaces, and trajectories. A tbvo-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional dynamics is shown in a state space plot while the corresponding...