Re: CFP: for new journal "Law, Probability and Risk: ..."


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Posted by xiang Yang, hu on March 29, 2001 at 10:09:41:

In Reply to: CFP: for new journal "Law, Probability and Risk: ..." posted by Peter Tillers on October 07, 2000 at 01:51:16:

: [Forwarded from the comp.ai newsgroup --- WHH]

: Law, Probability and Risk: a journal of reasoning under uncertainty.

: Call for Papers

: Papers are requested for a new journal entitled Law, Probability and
: Risk, aimed primarily at academic lawyers, mathematicians and
: statisticians. The journal seeks to publish papers that deal with topics
: on the interface of law and probabilistic reasoning. These will be
: interpreted broadly to include aspects relevant to the interpretation of
: scientific evidence, the assessment of uncertainty and the assessment of
: risk.

: Examples include: evaluation, interpretation and presentation of
: evidence, estimation of compensation for serious injuries, the relevance
: and reliability of genetic tests for insurance purposes with consequent
: considerations of legal or quasi-legal criteria for allowable
: discrimination; legal conflicts affecting the efficiency of credit
: scoring on the basis of the different types of data permitted to be held
: by credit bureaux in the U.K., the U.S. and the rest of Europe; the
: detection of fraudulent transactions live, using expert systems and
: statistical analyses; the drafting of legislation which is
: scientifically sound through the involvement of scientists and
: statisticians at this stage of legislation.

: Non-evidence law topics include environmental issues, mass torts,
: causation, risk assessment, medical and pharmaceutical litigation
: involving the evaluation of epidemiological and bio-statistical evidence
: according to legal criteria.

: The primary objective of the journal will be to cover issues in law
: which have a scientific element, with an emphasis on statistical and
: probabilistic issues and the assessment of risk. The primary readership
: includes academic lawyers interested in cases with a scientific element,
: particularly those which include the assessment of data but also
: including reasoning under uncertainty more generally, and legislators
: interested in drafting legislation which involves the assessment of
: uncertainty, such as statutory levels of pollutants in environmental
: legislation. The readership also includes statisticians and
: probabilists interested in the evaluation, interpretation and
: presentation of evidence.

: Examples of topics which may be covered include communications law,
: computers and the law, environmental law, law and medicine, regulatory
: law for science and technology, identification problems (such as DNA but
: including other materials), sampling issues (drugs, computer
: pornography, fraud), offender profiling, credit scoring, risk
: assessment, the role of statistics and probability in drafting
: legislation, the assessment of competing theories of evidence (possibly
: with a view to forming an optimal combination of them). In addition, a
: whole new area is emerging in the application of computers to medicine
: and other safety-critical areas. New legislation is required to define
: the responsibility of computer experts who develop software for tackling
: these safety-critical problems.

:
: Editors:

: C.G.G. Aitken (Statistics - University of Edinburgh)
: F. Taroni (Forensic Science - University of Lausanne)
: P. Tillers (Law - Cardozo School of Law, New York)
: M. Redmayne (Law - London School of Economics)

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