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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.

Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI's controversial agreement with the Department of Defense, she’s resigned from her role leading the company's robotics team.

2024–25 Environmental and Energy Regulation Reformation: Challenges and Solutions After West Virginia v. EPA, Sackett v. EPA, and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo 2023–24 Aiming for Answers: Balancing Rights, Safety, and Justice in a Post-Bruen America 2022–23 Leaving Langdell Behind:...

A recurrent concern about machine learning algorithms is that they operate as “black boxes,” making it difficult to identify how and why the algorithms reach particular decisions, recommendations, or predictions. Yet judges will confront machine learning algorithms with increasing frequency,...

Predictive analytics and artificial intelligence are applied widely across law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system. Despite criticism that such tools reinforce inequality and structural discrimination, proponents insist that they will nonetheless improve the equality and fairness of outcomes...

Abstract AI will change many aspects of the world we live in, including the way corporations are governed. Many efficiencies and improvements are likely, but there are also potential dangers, including the threat of harmful impacts on third parties, discriminatory...

The foundations of the administrative state are being reshaped, both by the continuing transformations of administrative law doctrine by the courts and by the ambitions for restructuring the executive branch among the current presidential administration. But at the same time,...

Vanderbilt law students are active, public-minded, and come from a variety of backgrounds - all qualities reflected by a wide variety of thriving student organizations at the law school. Even with little free time, most students find it worthwhile to...

Introduction On December 2, 2022, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with ABB Ltd., a Swiss global technology company, for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).[1] ABB,...

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Adjudicating De Facto Parentage by Stephanie L. Tang; Behind the Bench: Unmasking the Judicial Role in North America’s Prolonged Access to Justice Crisis by Brajesh Ranjan; Abuse Victims Are Not Sleeping Away Their Day in Court: Claim Preclusion and Wisconsin...

ARTICLE In Defense of Empiricism in Family Law Elizabeth S. Scott* It is fitting to include an essay defending the application of empirical research to family law and policy in a symposium honoring the scholarly career of Peg Brinig, who...

Wisconsin Law Review Forward is an online only publication intended to move conversations in legal academia forward by providing a forum for the quick publication of topical and timely pieces that would otherwise be delayed by our production schedule for...

Immigrants, those with legal status and those without, individuals returning from incarceration, and individuals with time-consuming childcare and other family obligations often look to start microenterprises like street vending to provide for themselves and their families. However, many municipalities in...

Artificial Intelligence as technology is developing fast in the Central Asian Region. In Post COVID World, it is expected to change the people’s lives by improving healthcare (e.g. making diagnosis more precise, enabling better prevention of diseases), increasing the efficiency...

This paper reviews the most recent literature on experiments with different Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques applied to predict judicial and administrative decisions. Among the most outstanding findings, we have that the most used data mining...

Experto Crede is the official Minnesota Law Review podcast. Listen to the latest episodes on Soundcloud, Spotify, or iTunes! Season 5 5.1 How the Liberal First Amendment Under-Protects Democracy with Professor Tabatha Abu El-Haj The guest for this episode is...

By: Will Roberts, Volume 108 Staff Member I. MECHANISMS FOR FIREARMS INDUSTRY LIABILITY In 2005, Congress enacted the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) which significantly shielded members of the firearms industry from civil liability for over a...

By JOEL S. JOHNSON. Full Text. Both the historic rule of lenity and the new major questions doctrine rest on a fundamental commitment to the separation of powers for important policy questions. In light of that shared justification, the logic...

On March 15, 2025, the White House announced that President Trump had invoked an eighteenth-century wartime authority to order the summary removal of noncitizens who were believed to be members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.Proclamation No. 10,903, 90...

Sometimes what we call a practice can matter just as much as the practice itself. Jury nullification has a storied history dating back to...The postThe Semantics of Jury Nullification: How Terminology Shapes (and Misshapes) the Jury’s Roleappeared first onHarvard Law...

The Digital Fourth Amendment is written by Professor Orin Kerr, one of the country’s foremost authorities on the Fourth Amendment, electronic privacy, and criminal procedure. Kerr’s work has been deeply influential in shaping how courts are looking at and deciding...

The United States makes bad choices when it comes to psychoactive drugs. Under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), U.S. drug law has simultaneously fueled mass incarceration, inhibited needed access, and enabled an opioid crisis.The postDrug Scheduling as Institutional Designappeared first...

Tax Sheltering Death Care by Victoria J. Haneman; Menstrual Justice After Dobbs by Margaret E. Johnson; Scrutinizing Succession by Carrie Stanton; The Neutral Criteria Myth by James Piltch; and Wisconsin’s Ideal Affirmative Defense Standard for Human Sex Trafficking Survivors by...

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