Conversational Demand Response: Bidirectional Aggregator-Prosumer Coordination through Agentic AI
arXiv:2603.06217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Residential demand response depends on sustained prosumer participation, yet existing coordination is either fully automated, or limited to one-way dispatch signals and price alerts that offer little possibility for informed decision-making. This paper introduces Conversational...
FreeTxt-Vi: A Benchmarked Vietnamese-English Toolkit for Segmentation, Sentiment, and Summarisation
arXiv:2603.05690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: FreeTxt-Vi is a free and open source web based toolkit for creating and analysing bilingual Vietnamese English text collections. Positioned at the intersection of corpus linguistics and natural language processing NLP it enables users to...
Who We Are, Where We Are: Mental Health at the Intersection of Person, Situation, and Large Language Models
arXiv:2603.05953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mental health is not a fixed trait but a dynamic process shaped by the interplay between individual dispositions and situational contexts. Building on interactionist and constructionist psychological theories, we develop interpretable models to predict well-being...
ViewFusion: Structured Spatial Thinking Chains for Multi-View Reasoning
arXiv:2603.06024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-view spatial reasoning remains difficult for current vision-language models. Even when multiple viewpoints are available, models often underutilize cross-view relations and instead rely on single-image shortcuts, leading to fragile performance on viewpoint transformation and occlusion-sensitive...
From Prompting to Preference Optimization: A Comparative Study of LLM-based Automated Essay Scoring
arXiv:2603.06424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have recently reshaped Automated Essay Scoring (AES), yet prior studies typically examine individual techniques in isolation, limiting understanding of their relative merits for English as a Second Language (L2) writing. To...
Stock Market Prediction Using Node Transformer Architecture Integrated with BERT Sentiment Analysis
arXiv:2603.05917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stock market prediction presents considerable challenges for investors, financial institutions, and policymakers operating in complex market environments characterized by noise, non-stationarity, and behavioral dynamics. Traditional forecasting methods often fail to capture the intricate patterns and...
Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work?
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we discussed what the controversy means for other startups seeking to work with the federal government.
Masq-or-Raid: Why Concealing Cops’ Identities Creates Reasonable Doubt When Cops Are Victims
Introduction The two police officers arrive at the defendant’s home in southeast Houston at 11:00 p.m. to serve a warrant for burglary. Because the defendant lives in a high-crime area, the officers are wearing body armor and have their badges...
Regulatory Settlement, Stare Decisis, and Loper Bright
In Loper Bright v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court adopted and deployed a particular narrative about agency action in support of overruling Chevron: Agencies reverse their own statutory interpretations “as much as [they] like[],” creating pervasive instability in the law, thereby...
A HAZY FIVE HOURS: MINNESOTA SHOULD NOT REINVENT THE WHEEL IN ADDRESSING THC BEVERAGES IN RESTAURANTS - Minnesota Law Review
By Shannon Schooley, Volume 108 Staff Member In 2023, Minnesota legalized recreational cannabis.[1] Although Minnesota followed twenty-two states and the District of Columbia in doing so,[2] its legal landscape presents unique regulatory challenges.[3] Minnesota’s full-scale recreational legalization comes on the...
Energy Emergencies and Energy Federalism
Immediately following his inauguration, President Trump declared a national energy emergency in the United States. While the contours and implications of this declaration remain uncertain, the order’s stated purpose is to advance the President’s domestic energy policy agenda by promoting...
Beyond the Paycheck: Why Compensating NCAA Student-Athletes Does Not Mean Employing Them
Sometimes the best lessons you learn are when you do have failings. You can always learn more when you don’t do something exactly right.[1] —Nick Saban, Alabama Head Football Coach 2007–2024.[2] Introduction If the best lessons emerge from failure, the...
Undergraduate Minor in Legal Studies
Introduction The Undergraduate Minor in Legal Studies, designed and taught by Vanderbilt Law faculty, offers a comprehensive introduction to law for Vanderbilt undergraduate students. Through five courses (15 credits) and supplemental programming through Legal Studies and Pre-Law Advising, students will...
AI-DRIVEN REGULATORY COMPLIANCE: AUTOMATING LEGAL ENFORCEMENT IN THE TECHNOLOGY SECTOR
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A Legal Stimulus
We need a legal stimulus. Not just a stimulus that is legal, but one that provides legal aid. That is why any further congressional stimulus should allocate additional funds specifically for legal services to individuals who, as a result of...
Call for Submissions for Second Annual Student Essay Competition
The Virginia Law Review (VLR) Online is excited to announce the topic for our second annual essay competition. This competition is open to all current law students (including LLMs) and recent graduates (from the Classes of 2018–2021) from any ABA-accredited...
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Erasing Slavery: The Uses and Misuses of The History of Slavery and Reconstruction in Constitutional Interpretation
This Essay takes as its jumping-off point Jack Balkin’s claim that judicial decisions both rely on constitutional memory and produce constitutional memory. It discusses the efforts of politicians and judges in the United States, from the moment of emancipation to...
Exempt but Not Immune: Why the Section 501(c)(3) Tax Exemption Amounts to Federal Financial Assistance and Demands that Private Schools Comply with Title IX lawreview - Minnesota Law Review
By ELLEN BART. Full Text. Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 (Title IX) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance and ensures that federal funds are not...
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A Study on the Institutionalization and Legal Improvement of Private Security and Security Services using AI and IoT Technology
Volume 2025, No. 5
Foreword by Miriam Seifter, Robert Yablon & Bree Grossi Wilde; The Next Chapter in Health Care Federalism: Expanding Medicaid from the Ground Up by Michelle Wilde Anderson & Lina Volin; Local Government Standing as State Standing by Katharine Cooney &...
(White) Racial Arithmetic as Intellectual Property Architecture
Introduction In The Signal and the Noise, a manifesto for our cognitively dissonant post-fact, pro-statistics era, Nate Silver writes: “Data-driven predictions can succeed—and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of...
The Behavioral Case for Supreme Court Ethics Reform
Introduction In the spring and summer of 2023, the Supreme Court found itself floating amidst a sea of controversy. After reports circulated that Justice Thomas had received numerous undisclosed gifts from billionaire megadonor Harlan Crow, many began to question the...
Refining the Dangerousness Standard in Felon Disarmament lawreview - Minnesota Law Review
By Jamie G. McWilliam. Full Text. To some, 18 U.S.C. 922(g) is a necessary safeguard that keeps guns out of the hands of dangerous persons. To others, it strips classes of non-violent people of their natural and constitutional rights. This...
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The Questionable Legality of IEEPA Tariffs: Does the Major Questions Doctrine Apply?
Introduction Since his second inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Trump has revived the practice of imposing tariffs and has pushed the boundaries of the President’s authority to do so. Traditional tariff authorities, like Section 232 of the Trade Expansion...
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