RT Monograph
SR 00
ID 10.2139/ssrn.3205286
A1 Ash, Elliott
A1 Chen, Daniel L.
A1 Mainali, Nischal
A1 Meier, Liam
T1 Automated Classification of Modes of Moral Reasoning in Judicial Decisions
YR 2018
FD 2018-12
VO 18-979
SP 20
AB 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.
T2 TSE Working Paper
PB TSE Working Paper
PP Toulouse
AV Published
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/28408/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/33157