Full Description
The trend of measuring performances is global and pervasive. We all live in quantified societies, in which performances in an ever-growing array of fields-from education to health, work to credit, justice to consumption-are assessed and governed through quantitative techniques. While the disruption brought by the quantitative turn has been widely studied by social scientists, legal research on the issue is minimal. This book aims to fill the gap. The essays herein collected explore how performance measurements interact with the law in different regions and sectors, which legal effects they produce, and for whose benefit.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Quantification of Performance as a Regulatory Technique: An Introduction
Mauro Bussani, Sabino Cassese and Marta Infantino
Part 1
Justice and Education
2 Revisiting 'Justice in Numbers' in Brazil: Quantified Justice, Managerial Judges, and Numeroids as a Regulatory Technique
Pedro Rubim Borges Fortes
3 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
4 Judicial Performance Index in India: Charting a New Course
Manjeri Subin Sunder Raj and Chiradeep Basak
5 Performance Assessment in Courts - the Swiss Case
Andreas Lienhard
6 Admission Algorithms for Affirmative Action in Higher Education: The South African Experience
Viyaleta Farysheuskaya and Patrizio Piraino
7 Quantification and Parameterization of Legal Research: The Case of Poland
Andrzej Jakubowski
Part 2
National Policy Making
8 Algorithmic Decision-Making and Public Sector Accountability in Africa - New Challenges for Law and Policy
Raenette Gottardo
9 Governance and Quantification of Performance in China
Ivan Cardillo
10 Use and Abuse of Quantitative Methodology for Policy Making in Japan
Tatsuhiko Inatani and Masahiko Kinoshita
11 Measuring Human Rights Performance in the UK: Liberalism, Communitarianism, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission's 'Drunkard's Search'
David McGrogan
Part 3
Transnational and International Market-Related Activities
12 Profiling in Algorithm-Based Decisions: An African Perspective
Salvatore Mancuso and Livio Corselli
13 Trust in an 'Omnimetric Society'? Reputational Systems in Platforms as Tools for Assessing Contractual Performance and Applying Remedies
Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell
14 Performance Measurements in Compliance with Corporate Social Responsibility Obligations
Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler
15 The Role of International Organizations in the Production of Legal Metrics
Kevin E. Davis
16 Quantification of Performance as a Regulatory Technique: A Comparative Appraisal
Mauro Bussani, Sabino Cassese and Marta Infantino
Detailed Table of Contents
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