This article, published in December 2010, provides an overview of the LLT Lab’s methodology and then-current research.
LLT Lab
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Article Introducing the LLT Lab’s Research in 2010
We Make Practical Tools
The Research Laboratory is dedicated to inventing and making available tools that make legal practice and legal education more effective and more efficient. This effort includes:
- First, combining our logic investigations with state-of-the-art technology to create tools that can increase the efficiency of decision-making processes in society;
- Second, creating methods for training legal decision-makers and legal practitioners, as well as researchers and students, in the use of logic skills; and
- Third, developing management structures for coordinating teams of researchers, and for ensuring the quality of their research products.
Some Baseline Results of the Vaccine/Injury Project
Vern Walker submitted a paper and gave a presentation at the Second International Conference on Quantitative Aspects of Justice and Fairness, held on 25-26 February 2011 in Fiesole, near Florence, Italy. The presentation, entitled “Empirically Quantifying Evidence Assessment in Legal Decisions,” reported some baseline results for the Vaccine/Injury Project.
The MAX Connective
Vern R. Walker
MAX is one of the four major logical connectives that we use in modeling the evidence assessment of a factfinder. It is a generalized form of the logical connective OR.
The MIN Connective
Vern R. Walker
MIN is one of the four major logical connectives that we use in modeling the evidence assessment of a factfinder. It is a generalized form of the logical connective AND. But we have to use it very carefully.
“Modus Tollens” Reasoning
Vern R. Walker
In modeling our decisions, we of course look for valid deductive patterns of reasoning, such as “Modus Tollens.”
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