Comparative Legal Metrics : : Quantification of Performances As Regulatory Technique.

• Author: International Congress of Comparative Law Asunción, Paraguay); Bussani, Mauro.
• TeilnehmendeR: Cassese, Sabino.; Infantino, Marta.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Comparative Law in Global Perspective Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

"This volume collects fourteen essays prepared for a Workshop on 'Comparative Legal Metrics: Quantification of Performance as a Regulatory Technique', held in Asunción, Paraguay, on October 2022, within the framework of the 21st General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL). The overall aim of the volume is to comparatively investigate how performance based measurements may work as a regulatory tool. These processes of social quantification are herein called 'legal metrics'"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Quantification of performance as a regulatory technique : an itnroduction / Mauro Bussani, Sabino Cassese, and Marta Infantino -- Revisiting 'justice in numbers' in Brazil : quantified justice, managerial judges, and numeroids as a regulatory technique / Pedro Rubim Borges Fortes -- Performance-based evaluation in Mexico's federal administrative justice tribunal and the federal judiciary power : a comparison / Luis José Béjar, Juan Antonio Casanovas, and Carlos A. Villanueva -- Judicial performance index in India : charting a new course / Manjeri Subin Sunder Raj and Chiradeep Basak -- Performance assessment in courts-the Swiss case / Andreas Lienhard -- Admission algorithms for Affirmative Action in higher education : the South African experience / Viyaleta Farysheuskaya and Patrizio Piraino -- Quantification and parameterization of legal research : the case of Poland / Andrzej Jakubowski -- Algorithmic decision-making and public sector accountability in Africa : new challenges for law and policy / Raenette Gottardo -- Governance and quantification of performance in China / Ivan Cardillo -- Use and abuse of quantitative methodology for policy making in Japan / Tatsuhiko Inatani and Masahiko Kinoshita -- Measuring human rights performance in UK : liberalism, communitarianism, and the equality and human rights commission 's 'drunkard's search' / David McGrogan -- Profiling in algorithm-based decisions : an African perspective / Salvatore Mancuso and Livio Corselli -- Trust in an 'omnimetric society'? reputational systems in platforms as tools for assessing contractual performance and applying remedies / Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell -- Performance measurements in compliance with corporate social responsibility obligations / Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler -- The role of international organizations in the production of legal metrics / Kevin E. Davis -- Quantification of performances as a regulatory technique : a comparative appraisal / Mauro Bussani, Sabino Cassese, and Marta Infantino.