3 papers
stat.OT2026
Profiling vs. Case-specific Evidence: A Probabilistic Analysis
Marcello Di Bello, Nicolò Cangiotti, Michele Loi
The use of profiling evidence in criminal trials is a longstanding controversy in legal epistemology and evidence law theory. Many scholars, even when they oppose its use at trial,…
cs.CY2025
Evidence Without Injustice: A New Counterfactual Test for Fair Algorithms
Michele Loi, Marcello Di Bello, Nicolò Cangiotti
The growing philosophical literature on algorithmic fairness has examined statistical criteria such as equalized odds and calibration, causal and counterfactual approaches, and the…
cs.CY2025
Causal Equal Protection as Algorithmic Fairness
Marcello Di Bello, Nicolò Cangiotti, Michele Loi
By combining the philosophical literature on statistical evidence and the interdisciplinary literature on algorithmic fairness, we revisit recent objections against classification…