We live in quantified societies, in which performances are relentlessly measured. This volume sheds light on the legal status and the effects of social measurements, exploring how they interact with the law in a variety of regions and sectors.

List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Quantification of Performance as a Regulatory Technique: An Introduction   Mauro Bussani, Sabino Cassese and Marta Infantino Part 1 Justice and Education 2 Revisiting ‘Justice in Numbers’ in Brazil: Quantified Justice, Managerial Judges, and Numeroids as a Regulatory Technique   Pedro Rubim Borges Fortes 3 Performance-Based Evaluation in Mexico’s Federal Administrative Justice Tribunal and the Federal Judiciary Power: A Comparison   Luis José Béjar, Juan Antonio Casanovas and Carlos A. Villanueva 4 Judicial Performance Index in India: Charting a New Course   Manjeri Subin Sunder Raj and Chiradeep Basak 5 Performance Assessment in Courts – the Swiss Case   Andreas Lienhard 6 Admission Algorithms for Affirmative Action in Higher Education: The South African Experience   Viyaleta Farysheuskaya and Patrizio Piraino 7 Quantification and Parameterization of Legal Research: The Case of Poland   Andrzej Jakubowski Part 2 National Policy Making 8 Algorithmic Decision-Making and Public Sector Accountability in Africa - New Challenges for Law and Policy   Raenette Gottardo 9 Governance and Quantification of Performance in China   Ivan Cardillo 10 Use and Abuse of Quantitative Methodology for Policy Making in Japan   Tatsuhiko Inatani and Masahiko Kinoshita 11 Measuring Human Rights Performance in the UK: Liberalism, Communitarianism, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s ‘Drunkard’s Search’   David McGrogan Part 3 Transnational and International Market-Related Activities 12 Profiling in Algorithm-Based Decisions: An African Perspective   Salvatore Mancuso and Livio Corselli 13 Trust in an ‘Omnimetric Society’? Reputational Systems in Platforms as Tools for Assessing Contractual Performance and Applying Remedies   Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell 14 Performance Measurements in Compliance with Corporate Social Responsibility Obligations   Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler 15 The Role of International Organizations in the Production of Legal Metrics   Kevin E. Davis 16 Quantification of Performance as a Regulatory Technique: A Comparative Appraisal   Mauro Bussani, Sabino Cassese and Marta Infantino Detailed Table of Contents Index