CFP: Quantitative Justice and Fairness

The Quantitative Justice network aims to develop an open interdisciplinary discussion on addressing legal and ethical issues through formal and quantitative models and their computable implementations.

In particular, this conference in Lisbon 22-24th May will focus on Inference and Causality. It aims at investigating the extent to which formal and quantitative models can be brought to bear on issues pertaining to balancing interests and values of different individuals, social groups and institutions as well as to balancing different sources of information, in different legal, political or social contexts.

Specific themes

1. The emergence of the concepts of inference and causality in different philosophical, cultural, religious and legal traditions
2. Inference and causality, conceptionalism and justice in tort and criminal law.
3. Inference or causality and the assessment of evidence
4. Quantitative and non-quantitative models of inference, causality or (distributive) justice and fairness
5. Telelological arguments, goals, values and deontology in legal and moral thinking
6. Multicriteria decision-making and social choice
7. Proportionality in distributive and corrective justice
8. Balancing rights and values in moral and legal reasoning

The conference takes place 22-24th May at University Lisbon, Portugal.
Paper / abstract submission not later than: 15 April 2012
Notification: 30 April 2012
Submission of full paper and slides: 15 May 2012