The California Judiciary

Multitasking, Multiarmed Bandits, and the Italian Judiciary

We model how a judge schedules cases as a multi-armed bandit problem. The model indicates that a first-in-first-out (FIFO) scheduling policy is optimal when the case completion hazard rate function is monotonic. But there are two ways to implement FIFO in this context: at the hearing level or at the case level. Our model indicates that the former policy, prioritizing the oldest hearing, is opti...

Judiciary: Explaining Judicial Independence

Judicial independence is an idea that has both internal (or normative) and external (or institutional) aspects. From a normative viewpoint, judges should be autonomous moral agents, who can be relied on to carry out their public duties independent of venal or ideological considerations. Independence, or impartiality, in this sense is a desirable aspect of a judge’s character. But judges are hum...

Dialogue with Judiciary

Law and medicine are two important subjects of study which are concerned with the behaviour of the individual in the society and the welfare of the society. From the beginning the law has been concerned with the welfare of the society and psychiatry, a branch of medicine, was more concerned with individual behaviour and its analysis. Law primarily seeks to protect the society from antisocial be...

Technology in Practice in Brazilian Judiciary: The Process of Computerization

The objective of this article is to understand the use of technology in the practice of appeal court judges, judges and lawyers in the context of technology adoption of the lawsuit computerization in Brazil. The analysis is supported by the Multilevel Conceptual Framework proposed by Pozzebon and Diniz (2012). The social groups, interpretative schema, negotiation mechanism and technology in pra...

The Two-Tiered Structure of the Judiciary Act of 1789