Judicial Decision-Making [electronic resource] : Integrating Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives / edited by Piotr Bystranowski, Bartosz Janik, Maciej Próchnicki.

Introduction -- What do we Mean by Precedent? Empirical Evidence of Ordinary Usage -- Severity Bias Across Different Types of Mens rea -- "That's Him!": Evaluating a Hypothesis about Guilt Within the Context of a Suspect Lineup -- Judicial Discretion and Debiasing -- The Whole Truth About Dina: Judicial Reasoning and the Conjunction Fallacy -- An Analytic Framework for the Study of Legal Actors -- Judicial Activism - The Need for Parameters: Analysis of Legal Reasoning in Judicial Review -- How Authoritarian is the Slovenian Constitutional Court? -- Hercules on a Diet -- Exploring the Challenges of Artificial Judicial Decision Making for Liberal Democracy.

This book shares state-of-the-art insights on judicial decision-making from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. It offers in-depth coverage of the forefront of the field and reviews the most important issues and discussions connected with an empirical approach to judicial decision-making. It also addresses the challenges of judicial psychology to the ideal of rule of law and explores the promise and perils of applying artificial intelligence in law. In closing, it offers empirically-driven guidance on ways to improve the quality of legal reasoning.