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Book SynopsisThe trend of measuring performances is global and pervasive. We all live in quantified societies, in which performances in an ever-growing array of fields–from education to health, work to credit, justice to consumption–are assessed and governed through quantitative techniques. While the disruption brought by the quantitative turn has been widely studied by social scientists, legal research on the issue is minimal. This book aims to fill the gap. The essays herein collected explore how performance measurements interact with the law in different regions and sectors, which legal effects they produce, and for whose benefit.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Quantification of Performance as a Regulatory Technique: An Introduction Mauro Bussani, Sabino Cassese and Marta Infantino Part 1 Justice and Education 2 Revisiting ‘Justice in Numbers’ in Brazil: Quantified Justice, Managerial Judges, and Numeroids as a Regulatory Technique Pedro Rubim Borges Fortes 3 Performance-Based Evaluation in Mexico’s Federal Administrative Justice Tribunal and the Federal Judiciary Power: A Comparison Luis José Béjar, Juan Antonio Casanovas and Carlos A. Villanueva 4 Judicial Performance Index in India: Charting a New Course Manjeri Subin Sunder Raj and Chiradeep Basak 5 Performance Assessment in Courts – the Swiss Case Andreas Lienhard 6 Admission Algorithms for Affirmative Action in Higher Education: The South African Experience Viyaleta Farysheuskaya and Patrizio Piraino 7 Quantification and Parameterization of Legal Research: The Case of Poland Andrzej Jakubowski Part 2 National Policy Making 8 Algorithmic Decision-Making and Public Sector Accountability in Africa - New Challenges for Law and Policy Raenette Gottardo 9 Governance and Quantification of Performance in China Ivan Cardillo 10 Use and Abuse of Quantitative Methodology for Policy Making in Japan Tatsuhiko Inatani and Masahiko Kinoshita 11 Measuring Human Rights Performance in the UK: Liberalism, Communitarianism, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s ‘Drunkard’s Search’ David McGrogan Part 3 Transnational and International Market-Related Activities 12 Profiling in Algorithm-Based Decisions: An African Perspective Salvatore Mancuso and Livio Corselli 13 Trust in an ‘Omnimetric Society’? Reputational Systems in Platforms as Tools for Assessing Contractual Performance and Applying Remedies Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell 14 Performance Measurements in Compliance with Corporate Social Responsibility Obligations Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler 15 The Role of International Organizations in the Production of Legal Metrics Kevin E. Davis 16 Quantification of Performance as a Regulatory Technique: A Comparative Appraisal Mauro Bussani, Sabino Cassese and Marta Infantino Detailed Table of Contents Index
