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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...
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Algorithmic Bias in Hiring Algorithms: A Kenyan Perspective
The use of machine learning algorithms has permeated into nearly all aspects of life. With this steady integration, tasks previously handled by humans are increasingly falling into the ‘hands’ of machines. Ideally this would be celebrated as a great improvement...
Gradient Legal Personhood for AI Systems—Painting Continental Legal Shapes Made to Fit Analytical Molds
What I propose in the present article are some theoretical adjustments for a more coherent answer to the legal “status question” of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. I arrive at those by using the new “bundle theory” of legal personhood, together...
Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021
Law, interpretations of law, legal arguments, agreements, etc. are typically expressed in writing, leading to the production of vast corpora of legal text.Their analysis, which is at the center of legal practice, becomes increasingly elaborate as these collections grow in...
Smart AI Legal Advisor
In today’s world, legal systems are often difficult to navigate due to the complexity of legal language, time-consuming procedures, and high costs involved in seeking professional legal help. Legal documents are filled with technical jargon and structured in a way...
The Difference Narrows: A Reply to Kurt Lash
ARTICLE The Difference Narrows: A Reply to Kurt Lash Randy E. Barnett* & Evan D. Bernick** We thank the Notre Dame Law Review for allowing us to respond to Kurt Lash’s reply to our critique of his interpretation of the...
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CHANGE THE SYSTEM, NOT THE WOMAN: ADDRESSING WORKPLACE INEQUITIES STEMMING FROM THE AMERICAN ECONOMY - Minnesota Law Review
By: Alyssa Shaw, Volume 109 Staff Member If the progress towards closing the gender wage gap continues on the trends of the last few years, women will not be compensated equally to men until at least 2067—over a century after...
Big Data�s Disparate Impact
Advocates of algorithmic techniques like data mining argue that these techniques eliminate human biases from the decision-making process. But an algorithm is only as good as the data it works with. Data is frequently imperfect in ways that allow these...
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Insurers as Contract Influencers lawreview - Minnesota Law Review
By DAVID A. HOFFMAN & RICK SWEDLOFF. Full Text. Contract boilerplate degrading consumers' litigation options is omnipresent, but a little mysterious. And that's not just because no one reads it. We know that terms mandating arbitration, exculpating liability, requiring individualized...
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The Application of Natural Language Processing Technology in Legal Aid and Judicial Practice
Natural language processing (NLP) technology is an important constituent of artificial intelligence, focusing on the interaction between computers and human natural language, with the aim of enabling computers to understand, analyze, generate and process human languages. The fields of legal...
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The relationship between infrared, optical, and ultraviolet extinction
view Abstract Citations (9701) References (43) Co-Reads Similar Papers Volume Content Graphics Metrics Export Citation NASA/ADS The Relationship between Infrared, Optical, and Ultraviolet Extinction Cardelli, Jason A. ; Clayton, Geoffrey C. ; Mathis, John S. Abstract The parameterized extinction data...
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Prediction, persuasion, and the jurisprudence of behaviourism
There is a growing literature critiquing the unreflective application of big data, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning techniques to social problems. Such methods may reflect biases rather than reasoned decision making. They also may leave those affected by automated...
Predictive Policing for Reform? Indeterminacy and Intervention in Big Data Policing
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...
Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics
Information theory provides a constructive criterion for setting up probability distributions on the basis of partial knowledge, and leads to a type of statistical inference which is called the maximum-entropy estimate. It is the least biased estimate possible on the...
Geometric Conservation Law and Its Application to Flow Computations on Moving Grids
Boundary-conforming coordinate transformations are used widely to map a flow region onto a computational space in which a finite-difference solution to the differential flow conservation laws is carried out. This method entails difficulties with maintenance of global conservation and with...
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Exceptional Cases By Emily Cauble Full essay here. Machine Gun Funk: The Unusual Analysis of "Dangerous and Unusual" By Gregory S. Parks & Vivian Bolen Full essay here. Nipping it in the Bud: The Promise and Perils of Tort Litigation...
Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2023
This talk situates the rising field of NLLP in the context of legal scholarship and practice.It will examine how the field relates to existing inquiries in computational law, AI and Law, and computational/empirical legal studies.Similarities, differences, and opportunities for cross-fertilization...
The intellectual property road to the knowledge economy: remarks on the readiness of the UAE Copyright Act to drive AI innovation
Copyright law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has the capacity to address the challenges associated with artificial intelligence (AI)-generated literary, artistic and scientific works. Under UAE copyright law, AI-generated works may qualify as copyright subject matter despite the non-human...
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Beyond Personhood
This paper examines the evolution of legal personhood and explores whether historical precedents—from corporate personhood to environmental legal recognition—can inform frameworks for governing artificial intelligence (AI). By tracing the development of persona ficta in Roman law and subsequent expansions of...
COVID-19 and Indian Country: A Legal Dispatch from the Navajo Nation
There has been much press coverage on the Navajo Nation’s struggle to contain the spread of COVID-19 on its lands. As of May 2, 2020, the Nation has 2,373 confirmed cases, and more than seventy deaths from the virus. These...
AI In The Law Impeded Due To Machine Readability Of Judicial Decisions