Abstract:Precedent is the cornerstone of the Common law system. Even in jurisdictions that follow Civil law, precedents constrain decisions when case law is sufficiently uniform. A systematic disregard of precedents makes judgments less coherent and the law less just. Nevertheless, relying on precedents can also make courts more efficient, whereas recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) open doors for solutions to automated and reliable identification of similar cases. In this stu… Show more
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