Remote justice – family court hearings during the pandemic

Dialogues in US Supreme Court Oral Hearings

Dialogue protocols in Artificial Intelligence and Law have become increasingly stylised, intended to examine the logic of particular legal phenomena such as burden of proof, rather than the procedures within which these phenomena occur. In this paper we will return to the original idea of using dialogue to model particular procedures by examining some very particular dialogues those found in or...

After the Toronto Hearings: Taking Giant Steps Toward Justice

Nearly two weeks after the close of the Toronto Hearings on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, a small group gathered for a lunch meeting at Al Madina Egyptian restaurant across the street from the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is the favorite meeting place of our 9/11 activist host, Egyptian-born Dr. Mohamed Elmasry , as well as a favorite among students and employees at ...

Entrainment, dominance and alliance in supreme court hearings

A major goal of the Cognitive Infocommunication approach is to develop applications in which human and artificial cognitive systems are made to work more effectively. A critical step in this process is improving our understanding of human–human interaction so that it may be modeled more closely. Our work addresses this task by examining the role of entrainment – the propensity of conversational...

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Noncompliance with family court mandated evaluations in a juvenile justice clinic.

This study identified factors correlating with noncompliance with family court ordered evaluations. Ninety charts from a juvenile justice clinic were reviewed. Subject noncompliance was defined as failure to attend three consecutive appointments. Patient, family, and environmental factors were analyzed. Forty-two percent of the subjects were noncompliant. Five variables discriminated compliant ...