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The Sentrix workshop on sentencing architecture successfully concluded
The three-day Sentrix Workshop on Sentencing Architecture, held from 12 to 14 November, concluded today in Bled, Slovenia, bringing together scholars and researchers to rethink how sentencing is understood. Set against the calm backdrop of Lake Bled, the workshop...
Legal decision-making architecture
The article, written by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mojca M. Plesničar, discusses the architecture of choice as a concept that is increasingly important in legal decision-making. Although behavioral economics research has long been based primarily on the decision-making of...
Digital gimmicks and dark patterns –how technology exploits our behavioral weaknesses
The article, written by Manja Skočir, analyses the phenomenon of digital gimmicks and dark patterns as one of the key ways in which modern technologies exploit users’ cognitive vulnerabilities. The theoretical framework of behavioural economics – in particular, the...
The Sentrix Workshop: Rethinking What and How We Know Sentencing
In November 2025, sentencing scholars from across Europe and beyond will gather by the shores of Lake Bled for something slightly different: a workshop that is part conversation, part experiment, and part reflection on how we know what we know. The Sentrix Workshop is...
Tuesday Meeting: Digitalized Descriptions of Criminal Behaviours Contained in Court Verdicts and Their Use in Sentencing Research: Vast Opportunities (and some dangers)
We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Jakub Drapal entitled “Digitalized Descriptions of Criminal Behaviours Contained in Court Verdicts and Their Use in Sentencing Research: Vast Opportunities (and some dangers)”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings...
Tuesday Meeting: »AI for assisting judicial decision-making: challenges and opportunities«
We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Brian Barry entitled “AI for assisting judicial decision-making: challenges and opportunities”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Tuesday, 11 November 2025, at 15.00pm in the library of the Institute of...
Tuesday Meeting: »Pre-trial detention in Chile: Between Time Management and Standardisation«
We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Javier Velásquez entitled “Pre-trial detention in Chile: Between Time Management and Standardisation”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Monday, 10 November 2025, at 11.00 a.m. in the library of the Institute...
Behavioural Economics and Law: How We Decide – in the Mind, in Institutions, and on the Screen
At the 51st Slovenian Lawyers’ Days (Portorož, 16–17 October 2025), a thought-provoking panel focused on Behavioural Economics and Law. The session, chaired by Jaka Cepec, explored how insights from behavioural science – from Kahneman’s dual-system theory to the...
Gaza, genocide and the sentencing environment
Reflecting on the decision-making environment surrounding criminal sentencing in the context of unspeakable crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, which can plausibly be considered a genocide, is both defeatist and hopeful. It is defeatist because...
First Sentrix Workshop
As part of the ERC Sentrix project, a workshop dedicated to the decision-making architecture in sentencing will be held in Bled from November 12 to 14, 2025. Discussions will focus on the factors that shape the environment in which sentencing decisions take place...
How Prosecutors Shape Sentencing: Lecture by Alena McClure
At this week’s Tuesday Meeting, visiting scholar Alena McClure from Charles University in Prague delivered an outstanding lecture titled “Negotiating Authority: Prosecutors’ Perceptions of the Supervisory Role in Sentencing Decisions.”Her talk explored how prosecutors...
Welcome to Sentrix: Mapping Sentencing in Motion
The Sentrix webpage is designed to be more than just a project site, it aims to become a hub for people thinking about sentencing: about how it’s done, what shapes it, and what happens when we try to study it. Sentencing is a moment, but also a process; a legal...
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