Intellectual Property

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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...

For future Internet-of-Things based Big Data applications, data collection from ubiquitous smart sensors with limited spectrum bandwidth is very challenging. On the other hand, to interpret the meaning behind the collected data, it is also challenging for an edge fusion...

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...

[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...

Since 2016, more than 80 AI ethics documents - including codes, principles, frameworks, and policy strategies - have been produced by corporations, governments, and NGOs. In this paper, we examine three topics of importance related to our ongoing empirical study...

Introduction Theories of intellectual property (IP) tend to come in two varieties: “normative” theories that concern themselves with evaluating the extent to which IP rights are (or are not) justified, and “positive” theories that focus on explaining the origins or...

Machine learning models have become pervasive in our everyday life; they decide on important matters influencing our education, employment and judicial system. Many of these predictive systems are commercial products protected by trade secrets, hence their decision-making is opaque. Therefore,...

This paper divides the application of AI in education into three categories, namely, students-oriented AI, teachers-oriented AI and school mangers -oriented AI, which focuses on the individualized self-adaptive learning of students, the assisted teaching of teachers and the service management...

Introduction In the twenty-first-century United States, patents—government grants of exclusive rights to the originator of a new and useful invention—are part of the politics of the border.[1] Patents are relevant to the U.S. border in at least three ways. First,...

By: Marie Lundgren, Volume 108 Staff Member I. BACKGROUND In 2003, Congress passed the Medicare Modernization Act, marking the largest expansion of benefits in the 38-year history of U.S. public healthcare.[1] When the Medicare program was first enacted in 1965,...

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Abstract Background Considering the disruptive potential of AI technology, its current and future impact in healthcare, as well as healthcare professionals’ lack of training in how to use it, the paper summarizes how to approach the challenges of AI from...

AI in education is not only a challenging area of technical development and educational innovation, but increasingly the focus of critical analysis informed by the social sciences, philosophy and theory. This chapter provides an overview of critical perspectives on AI...

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Introduction The race is on to reintroduce Christianity into public schools. A new Louisiana law mandates that the Ten Commandments be posted in every public grade school, high school, and college classroom.[1] Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Schools decreed that all...

Recruiting Events Each year, Vanderbilt Law School LL.M. admissions representatives attend a variety of student recruiting events across the globe. This year, we will be attending a number of in-person and virtual events, including the LSAC Digital Forums, virtual LL.M....

In 2023, investigative journalists reported multiple instances where billionaires showered Supreme Court Justices with lavish gifts. Previously undisclosed luxury fishing trips, private jet travel, and yacht cruises ignited popular and scholarly debates about Congress’s role in regulating Justices’ conduct. This...

Examples of discriminatory algorithmic recruitment of workers have triggered a debate on application of the non-discrimination principle in the EU. Algorithms challenge two principles in the system of evidence in EU non-discrimination law. The first is effectiveness, given that due...

The Wisconsin Law Review presents: The Shadow Carceral State Registration available here.Date and Time Friday, September 26 9:00am – 5:30pm CDT Location Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 227 State Street Madison, WI 53703 CLE for this event is pending.Summary On...

Judicial documents and judgments are a rich source of information about legal cases, litigants, and judicial decision-makers. Natural language processing (NLP) based approaches have recently received much attention for their ability to decipher implicit information from text. NLP researchers have...

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...

Abstract The widespread usage of machine learning systems and econometric methods in the credit domain has transformed the decision-making process for evaluating loan applications. Automated analysis of credit applications diminishes the subjectivity of the decision-making process. On the other hand,...

Introduction The United States patent system is commonly justified by its provision of economic incentives for innovation.[1] But this justification comes with constant concern that the social benefits of innovation that the patent system stimulates might not outweigh the sum...

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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 &...