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    Jurimetrics is the empirical study of legal problems using scientific methods like statistics and computer modeling. It was coined in 1949 and examines how law and science intersect. In India, jurimetrics could be useful for analyzing facts, identifying ambiguities, and potentially predicting judicial decisions. The Indian Constitution gives the Supreme Court power to review its own judgments and punish contempt, areas where jurimetrics could provide insights. Constitutional law evolves based on judges' personal philosophies, and individual subjectivity plays an important role in decisions, so jurimetrics may help understand judicial behavior and decision-making.

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    Jurimetrics is the empirical study of legal problems using scientific methods like statistics and computer modeling. It was coined in 1949 and examines how law and science intersect. In India, jurimetrics could be useful for analyzing facts, identifying ambiguities, and potentially predicting judicial decisions. The Indian Constitution gives the Supreme Court power to review its own judgments and punish contempt, areas where jurimetrics could provide insights. Constitutional law evolves based on judges' personal philosophies, and individual subjectivity plays an important role in decisions, so jurimetrics may help understand judicial behavior and decision-making.

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    EXAMINE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JURIMETRICS IN INDIAN CONTEXT

    Jurimetrics is the study of law and science. It involves a strictly empirical approach to the law
    and examines a wide range of scientific and legal topics that are interrelated.

    The term ‘Jurimetrics’ was coined by Lee Loevinger in 1949 and introduced into the legal
    vocabulary in the late forties and signifies the scientific investigation of legal problems. It has
    been defined as ‘the empirical study of legal phenomena with the aid of mathematical models
    based on rationalism.’

    Jurimetrics signifies the scientific investigation of legal problems, especially using electronic
    computers and by symbolic logic.

    The significance of Jurismetrics in Indian Context can be found under the provisions of
    Indian Constitution under Article 137 wherein the Supreme Court has the power to review its
    own judgment and interpret the law. Similarly, Supreme Court has also been vested with
    power to punish anyone for the contempt of court in India including itself.

    Jurimetrics, the application of modern logic and computer techniques to legal problems, may
    be useful in the analysis of facts, in the identification of ambiguities in syntax and perhaps in
    the prediction and formulation of judicial decisions. Judicial behaviour is perhaps best
    defined as a field of inquiry in which there is a fusion of theories and methods developed in
    the various social sciences to study scientifically how and why judges make the decisions
    they do.

    Constitutional law changes according to the philosophical current in the minds of the judges.
    It is illogical to dissociate the decision-making of the Judges from the personal philosophies
    held by the Judges. In the Bank Nationalization Case, the court overruled its own rulings
    which had held the field for more than twenty year. In the Privy Purse Case, the court
    changed its mind within one year. The subjectivity of an individual judge plays the most
    important role in the deciding of cases. And it is because of this subjectivity, the inherent
    morality embedded in a judge’s subconscious mind which gives the law dynamic character.
    Judgments of the ‘higher courts’ are always unchallengeable by the ‘lower courts’ on the
    ground that their decisions are not truthful, not that such an explicit case has arisen. It is
    important to bear in mind that judges were inevitably once practising lawyers who at the
    pinnacle of their careers were appointed to their respective judicial office and so each
    respective judge has his or her own perception of what the law is and the functions the law
    undertakes to implement. Judges are not in fact always truthful in their reasoning for
    decisions and merely use other factors as a support grounding the decision.

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