TY  - RPRT
CY  - Toulouse
ID  - publications28408
UR  - http://tse-fr.eu/pub/33157
A1  - Ash, Elliott
A1  - Chen, Daniel L.
A1  - Mainali, Nischal
A1  - Meier, Liam
Y1  - 2018/12//
N2  - What modes of moral reasoning do judges employ? We construct a linear SVM classifier for moral reasoning mode trained on applied ethics articles written by consequentialists and deontologists. The model can classify a paragraph of text in held out data with over 90 percent accuracy. We then apply this classifier to a corpus of circuit court opinions. We show that the use of consequentialist reasoning has increased over time. We report rankings of relative use of reasoning modes by legal topic, by judge, and by judge law school.
PB  - TSE Working Paper
T3  - TSE Working Paper
VL  - 10.2139/ssrn.3205286
M1  - working_paper
TI  - Automated Classification of Modes of Moral Reasoning in Judicial Decisions
AV  - public
EP  - 20
ER  -