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Limits of Predictability in Civil Litigation
Sandro Claudio Lera, Shahrokh Firouzi, Jonathan Habshush +1
Lawyers, insurers, and litigation funders forecast how civil lawsuits will end, and legal theory distinguishes easy cases, in which the law determines the result, from hard cases,…
The Determinants of Judicial Promotion: Politics, Prestige, and Performance
Ilya Davidson, Sandro Claudio Lera, Robert Mahari
Judicial promotions shape the composition of higher courts, yet their determinants remain poorly understood. This paper examines promotion from U.S. District Courts to Courts of Ap…
HawkesRank: Event-Driven Centrality for Real-Time Importance Ranking
Didier Sornette, Yishan Luo, Sandro Claudio Lera
Quantifying influence in networks is important across science, economics, and public health, yet widely used centrality measures remain limited: they rely on static representations…
Why AI Alignment Failure Is Structural: Learned Human Interaction Structures and AGI as an Endogenous Evolutionary Shock
Didier Sornette, Sandro Claudio Lera, Ke Wu
Recent reports of large language models (LLMs) exhibiting behaviors such as deception, threats, or blackmail are often interpreted as evidence of alignment failure or emergent mali…