Immigration Law

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...

We argue why interpretability should have primacy alongside empiricism for several reasons: first, if machine learning (ML) models are beginning to render some of the high-risk healthcare decisions instead of clinicians, these models pose a novel medicolegal and ethical frontier...

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...

Deep learning technologies, which are the key components of state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) services, have shown great success in providing human-level capabilities for a variety of tasks, such as visual analysis, speech recognition, and natural language processing and etc. Building...

What Sets Vanderbilt's LL.M. Program Apart? At Vanderbilt Law, you can customize your legal education, prepare for a bar exam, and improve your language skills. Course Tracks and Customizable Curriculums At Vanderbilt, students have the power to choose what they...

Can a business-closure regulation of commercial property in a pandemic be a taking? In the midst of a pandemic, it generally falls to government to enact laws and regulations in an effort to curtail the spread of disease. For example,...

Big Data is increasingly mined to rank and rate individuals. Predictive algorithms assess whether we are good credit risks, desirable employees, reliable tenants, valuable customers—or deadbeats, shirkers, menaces, and “wastes of time.” Crucial opportunities are on the line, including the...

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As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to spread, we have seen an increase in examples of AI systems reflecting or exacerbating societal bias, from racist facial recognition to sexist natural language processing. These biases threaten to overshadow AI’s...

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The American Law Institute is set to release a first ever Restatement of the Law in the area of Children and the Law to address the increasingly convoluted treatment of children across legal systems.[1] Children’s rights scholars have long critiqued...

The Minnesota Law Review invites you to attend the Vol. 110 Symposium, "The Battle Will Not Be Over": 60 Years of the Voting Rights Act. As Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965, he warned that...

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...

Concerns regarding unfairness and discrimination in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) systems have recently received increased attention from both legal and computer science scholars. Yet, the degree of overlap between notions of algorithmic bias and fairness on the one...

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...

This article explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on legal knowledge work, examining the evolution from traditional document-centric processes to sophisticated AI-augmented workflows. The article shows the technological foundations of legal AI systems, highlighting the capabilities and limitations of...

The problem of finding a feedback law that drives the state of a linear discrete-time system to the origin in minimum-time subject to state-control constraints is considered. Algorithms are given to obtain facial descriptions of the <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">M</tex> -step...

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...

The organizational use of artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly spread across various sectors. Alongside the awareness of the benefits brought by AI, there is a growing consensus on the necessity of tackling the risks and potential harms, such as bias...

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...

Abstract: This chapter examines the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in business law, focusing on the regulatory, ethical, and governance challenges it presents. As AI applications in legal processes grow—ranging from compliance automation and contract management to risk assessment...

Introduction The first few scenes of the Trump presidency sequel have been action-packed. The White House’s news-getting activity has triggered similarly newsworthy happenings in the federal courts. Lower courts have put temporary halts on executive actions relating to DEI programs,[1]...

This Essay responds to the argument by Joshua Kroll, et al., in Accountable Algorithms, 165 U.PA.L.REV. 633 (2017), that technical tools can be more effective in ensuring the fairness of algorithms than insisting on transparency. When it comes to combating...

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Many Americans are worrying about whether they will soon be living in a post-democracy autocracy. But in the meantime, they may already be living in a crypto-fueled kleptocracy. Less than one year into his second…The postCrypto Kleptocracyappeared first onMichigan Law...

The second Trump Administration is executing an extensive immigration crackdown — pulling more people into detention, expanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and funneling money from...The postConstruction and Management of the South Florida Detention Facilityappeared first onHarvard Law Review.

[Introduction] The retirement of trademarks such as “Uncle Ben” and “Aunt Jemima” during the fulcrum of the Black Lives Matter movement prompted scholars to reconsider how trademark law protected various marks that perpetuated images built on a terrifying scaffold of...

By ANNEMARIE FOY. Full Text. Millions of people owe money to the government as a consequence of a criminal charge. But while some of that debt is tied to fines or restitution, much of it is levied as fees, or...

By Billy Clark. Full Text. Concerned by the public health threats posed by certain firearms, the Massachusetts legislature enacts a law to set safety standards for firearms in the Commonwealth. Firearm dealers across the State, including some of the leading...