Regulating Impartiality in Agency Adjudication

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

Against Impartiality

People often identify justice with impartiality. This reflects reality: many who experience injustice complain of biased treatment. But whether bias is objectionable depends on a prior commitment to an ideal of nondomination. I advance this claim by reference to impartiality arguments defended by Brian Barry and Amartya Sen. Then I sketch a historical account of impartialist ventures that shows...

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...