Prof. Krishna Reddy P and his students Sriharshitha Bondugula and Narendra Babu Unnam presented a paper on Data Cube for Exploring Anomalies in Justice Delivery: An Experiment on Indian Judgements at the 2025 International Conference on the AI Revolution: Research, Ethics, and Society (AIR-RES’25) held in Las Vagas, USA from 14 to 16  April. The other author of this paper is Santhy K V K from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Here is the summary of their paper as explained by the authors: 

In decision-making settings such as medical diagnosis, investment choices, or sentencing in a court of law, an individual’s background and experience influence their decisions. In the legal domain, multiple factors like personal bias/beliefs, recent events, and the contemporary state of mind could affect decision-making, leading to inconsistencies in judgments between and within jurisdictions. It is widely reported in the literature that anomalies and disparities exist in judicial decisions, such as bail grants and sentence impositions, stemming from implicit bias or other contextual factors. Notably, in domains like sales and marketing, data cube-based systems are being used to extract interesting trends and anomalies in subspaces from large multidimensional databases. In this paper, we extend the data cube framework to explore possible anomalies and disparities in court sentences by conducting experiments on a sample Indian judgment dataset of criminal cases. The results show that the data cube-based framework could identify anomalies in the legal domain. We hope this work will encourage researchers to investigate a comprehensive data cube-based framework to reduce disparities and improve justice delivery worldwide.

More details at:  https://www.american-cse.org/air-res2025/”

April 2025