UTC -02:30 America/St_Johns
Preventive Justice: The Quest for Certainty in Predicting Future Harm
07
Wednesday
May 07, 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
This insightful lecture on the topic of Preventive Justice, a concept rooted in the 18th century and recently reinvigorated through the use of risk assessment tools and predictive machine learning algorithms, will examine the legal and ethical issues raised by these modern preventive justice schemes and explore whether we are closer to predicting future harm with certainty.
Brought to you by Memorial University, the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Law Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador.