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Theory of State Decision-Making
Public law primarily concerns state decisions, including the legislative decisions of the administration and the rulings by the relevant courts....
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Decision Quality and Errors in Content Moderation
In certain instances, algorithmic content moderation by online platforms is a process with binary outcomes: those that are “right” and those that are...
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Automated Decision-Making and the Law
Governing modern rule-based societies involves making countless legal decisions. Thus far, these decisions have been made exclusively by humans....
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Moral Entanglement in Group Decision-Making: Explaining an Odd Rule in Corporate Criminal Liability
Acting as part of a corporation may allow an individual more easily to rationalize participating in a harmful act, but there are countervailing...
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Queer Legal Theory
The article explores the understanding of the notion, concept and method of queer legal theory. In other words, what do we mean by “queer legal...
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The Figure of the Unknown within Sacco’s Theory
The article analyzes one aspect of Rodolfo Sacco’s complex and innovative theoretical itinerary as it evolved. While the author’s theoretical...
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An evaluation of maritime simulators from technical, instructional, and organizational perspectives: a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making approach
Recent advancements in simulation technology facilitated maritime training in various modalities such as full-mission, desktop-based, cloud-based,...
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Communication Theory of Law and Constitutional Rules
This article aims to carry out a syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic approach to constitutional rules from the perspective of the communication theory...
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Theory of Legal Norms
The chapter introduces the concept of interconnected norms based on a differentiation between the sanctioned normsSanctioned norm and sanctioning...
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A Behavioural Analysis of the Future of Collective Redress for Financial Consumers Following the Supreme Court Decision in Merricks v Mastercard
One of the biggest problems faced by consumers seeking redress for financial harm is the prohibitive expense and impracticality of bringing low-value...
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Facts and Rules: Incidence of the Social Environment in the Understanding and Elaboration of Law, from the Communicational Theory of Law
The Communicational Theory of Law (CTL) usually differentiates between Legal Sociology and Legal Theory, in the sense that Legal Sociology is...
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Automation in Administrative Decision-Making Concerning Social Benefits
This chapter presents automated administrative decision-making from a practical perspective. The point of view is that of a government agency with a...
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Judicial Decision-Making in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a pervasive presence in almost every aspect of society and business: from assigning credit scores to people,...
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Gustav Radbruch’s Theory of Legal Obligation
Gustav Radbruch characterizes the fundamental relation between law and morality in his Legal Philosophy in a complex fashion. This forms the backdrop...
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Theorizing seafarers’ participation and learning in an evolving maritime workplace: an activity theory perspective
This paper presents the cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) or simply activity theory (AT) as a suitable framework to theorize seafarers’...
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Decision Theory, Relative Plausibility and the Criminal Standard of Proof
The evolution of the understanding of evidence-based proof and decision processes in the law, especially criminal law, and standards of proof in this...
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The Unilateral Authority Theory of Punishment
It is frequently argued that wrongdoers forfeit, through their wrongdoing, their previously held claim rights against being punished. But this is a...
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What’s on the Human Mind? Decision Theory and Deterrence
Indeed, deterrence, as Freedman and Mazarr recount in this volume in respectively Chaps. 1 and...
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Co** with Moral Dilemmas in German Criminal Law Theory and Justice: Classical Cases and Modern Variants
Dilemma scenarios have always been among the most common problems of moral philosophy and criminal law theory. One only has to contemplate the Plank...
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Confronting the Legal Challenges of Governmental Automated Decision-Making
This chapter undertakes an in-depth comparative legal analysis, examining the ability of US and German (constitutional) law as well as of...