LLT Lab

This post contains a chronological list of the decisions in the study sample for the Vaccine/Injury Project. As the Lab posts logic models for particular cases, you can access them through this list.

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There are many objectives for the Lab’s Vaccine/Injury Project (“V/IP”), but the major ones include:

• First, to investigate the logical structure of the statutory rule system, case law and evidence-assessment patterns under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (“VICP”) in the United States;
• Second, to use our logic investigation and state-of-the-art technology to create useful tools that can increase the efficiency of the VICP decision-making process;
• Third, to create methods for training legal decision-makers and legal practitioners, as well as researchers and students, in the use of logic skills; and
• Fourth, to demonstrate the feasibility of a scalable, team approach in applying the default-logic framework to legal decisions generally.

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These are the assigned readings for the course in Comparative Health Care Regulation, part of the study abroad program in Pisa, Italy in 2010 co-sponsored by Hofstra Law School and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. The program as a whole incorporates both methods and materials developed at the LLT Lab.

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This video takes a quick tour of the logic diagram for the statutory rules involved in the Lab’s Vaccine/Injury Project (“V/IP”). We model the reasoning of the special masters who decide these cases, and study their reasoning from evidence to findings of fact. In this project, we focus on the “causation-in-fact” condition of the Off-Table Cases.

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