Codified Justice or Algorithmic Unfairness? — The intrusion of the predictive analytics or risk assessment tools into judicial settings is exemplified with the implementation of ‘COMPAS’ into the USA (Wisconsin, back in 2012, after years of development since the 1990s). Such algorithmic software uses machine-learning techniques that find patterns or correlations in vast quantities of ‘data’…

The breakthrough in technology, a game-changer in knowledge, intelligence, and power- ChatGPT writes: “From every corner of the globe, its voice is heard With answers to the questions, that leave us all blurred It’s a digital revolution, that’s changing the game The rise of ChatGPT, it’s the new claim to fame.”…

In the modern legal landscape, the role of Artificial Intelligence is rapidly rising and becoming increasingly significant. …

Bangladesh needs mass awareness to implement laws — The disclosure of victims’ images and the impact of such disclosure raise critical ethical, legal, and public policy questions. Both the event of victimization and the events that follow negatively impact the victims, and thus, create vulnerability, further victimization, traumatization, etc. Although the impacts of such publicity are manifold, we…

A Particular Focus on Bangladesh — The tension between media rights and the victim’s right to privacy gains increased attention from media professionals, legal scholars, legal practitioners, criminologists, and crime victims. …

There is ideally nothing like ‘Virtual Courts’; rather it is the changes in the place of sitting of judges and the mode of participating in the court hearing. Having disrupted court operations across the country, the pandemic prompts the courtroom to moves online and judges to conduct essential proceedings to…

Government interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) systems are remarkably growing to transform the decision-making process and public services. The Public sector across the world is thus looking forward to determining public entitlements (licensing, social benefits, and regulatory investigations), prioritizing public services, predict policing, and informing courts’…

AI advents are becoming omnipresent in various spheres of human life, governance, and business alike. As it is palpably understood that AI and its application like the increasing degree of autonomy facilitated by AI systems have the duality of both risks and benefits, the regulation of AI has become a…

Criminal Justice Perspective — The risk assessment algorithms are in magnitude being used in the criminal court across the USA that uses machine-learning techniques to assess an offender’s likelihood of recidivism in the making of the parole, probation, bail, and sentencing decision. These data-driven predictive tools (e.g., the COMPAS in Wisconsin) were in the…