Asserting Fairness through AI, Mathematics and Experimental Economics. The CREA Project Case Study.

This is an account of Analytical-Experimental Workgroup role in a two-year EU funded project. A restricted group of economists and mathematicians has interacted with law researchers and computer scientist (in the proposal’s words) “to introduce new mechanisms of dispute resolution as a helping tool in legal procedures for lawyers, mediators and judges, with the objective to reach an agreement between the parties”. The novelty of the analysis is to allow different skills (by legal, experimental, mathematical and computer scientists) work together in order to find a reliable and quick methodology to solve conflict in bargaining through equitable algorithms. The variety of specializations has been the main challenge and, finally, the project’s strength.