This Article analyzes the component parts of “judicial deference” as set out in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, and assesses their interrelationship and persuasiveness. Part I locates McConnell within the history of struggles over the proper role of courts and legislatures in the constitutional design and oversight of campaign finance controls. It attempts to show how the Court could ...

In this article, I critically assess Hélène Landemore's new model of Open Democracy, asking whether it requires citizens to blindly defer the decisions mini-public. To address question, I, first, discuss three institutional mechanisms in all which can be read grant democratic control. argue that neither capacity authorize selection mechanism (random sortition), nor lottocratic conception politi...

This Article explores the phenomenon of “mutual deference” between medical and legal systems to show that placing mandated reporting responsibilities on clinicians results in lasting harm for families. On side, are obligated defer any “reasonable suspicion” a child may be at risk system; their concern mild or severe, nonmedical nature. But system, comprised lay-people field medicine, is illequi...

One of the most important highlights of personal tutoring is that of recognizing the student’s affective state and reacting accordingly by expressing the pedagogical movements in an affectively suitable way. In this paper, we propose a model for an affective tutor. The intelligent tutor integrates an affective student model based on the OCC cognitive model of emotion, with a cognitive student m...

In this paper we propose an agent-based approach for controlling the behavior of a Smart Home Environment that, based on the recognized situation and user goal, selects a suitable workflow for combining services of the environment. To this aim we have developed a butler agent that employs user and context modeling for supporting proactive adaptation of the interaction with the house. The user c...