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Abstract Machine learning experts are feeding judicial opinions to algorithms, to predict how future cases will be decided. We call the use of such predictive analytics in judicial contexts a jurisprudence of behaviorism, as it rests on a fundamentally Skinnerian model of cognition as a black boxed transformation of inputs into outputs. In this model, persuasion is passé; what matters is prediction. After describing and critiquing a recent study that has advanced this jurisprudence of behaviorism, we question the value of such research.

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Pasquale, Frank A. and Cashwell, Glyn, Prediction, Persuasion, and the Jurisprudence of Behaviorism (November 8, 2017). U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-34, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3067737

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