Algorithmic discrimination in the credit domain: what do we know about it?
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,...
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The Selective Labels Problem
Evaluating whether machines improve on human performance is one of the central questions of machine learning. However, there are many domains where the data is <i>selectively labeled</i> in the sense that the observed outcomes are themselves a consequence of the...
Shaping the future of AI in healthcare through ethics and governance
Abstract The purpose of this research is to identify and evaluate the technical, ethical and regulatory challenges related to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. The potential applications of AI in healthcare seem limitless and vary in their...
Mapping global AI governance: a nascent regime in a fragmented landscape
AbstractThe rapid advances in the development and rollout of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies over the past years have triggered a frenzy of regulatory initiatives at various levels of government and the private sector. This article describes and evaluates the emerging...
Putting AI Ethics into Practice: The Hourglass Model of Organizational AI Governance
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...
After SFFA: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing as a Remedy to Federal Housing Discrimination
Nearly sixty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), racial segregation, housing discrimination, and consequent disparities in health and opportunity stubbornly persist. Yet the Department of Housing and Urban Development has made limited use of the FHA’s...
New Challenges for Federal Regulations: Executive Branch Responses
Over the last decade, federal regulations have faced increasingly more challenging hurdles. The Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Loper Bright, putting an end to Chevron deference, and its 2022 decision in West Virginia v. EPA, announcing the “major questions doctrine,”...
Anti-Domination and Administration
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,...
A predictive performance comparison of machine learning models for judicial cases
Artificial intelligence is currently in the center of attention of legal professionals. In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made to predict judicial decisions using different machine learning models, but no realistic performance comparison between them is available....
Artificial intelligence and copyright and related rights
This article examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on copyright and related rights in the context of today’s digital environment. The growing role of AI in creativity and content creation creates new challenges and questions regarding ownership, authorship and...
Stare Decisis and the Missing Administrability Inquiry
Administrative law is undergoing a tremendous amount of change. Presidential administrations have abandoned long-held practices and embraced new strategies to make policy through adjudication and regulation. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has reworked foundational principles of federal administrative law including agency...
Including Minority Parties in Policymaking: A Legislative Requirement to Address Member Interests
Introduction Legislatures face a tension between legislative effectiveness and the inclusion of minority parties in policymaking. On one hand, providing minority party members with a meaningful role in the development of legislation may decrease the…The postIncluding Minority Parties in Policymaking:...
The Comstock Act’s Equal Protection Problem
Following its victory in Dobbs, the antiabortion movement has set its sights on a national abortion ban. Affiliates of the second Trump Administration—including the vice president-elect—have endorsed the renewed enforcement of the 1873 Comstock Act…The postThe Comstock Act’s Equal Protection...
Crossing the Rubicon: Assembling a Litigation Colossus in Mass Torts
In 2021, Arizona created the alternative business structure (ABS), which allows nonattorneys to own a firm that provides legal services and actively participate in firm management. Scholars have argued that this new paradigm will erode…The postCrossing the Rubicon: Assembling a...
The Federal General Counsel, Law, and Our Democracy at a Crossroads
This speech, given by the general counsel of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on January 7, 2025, examines how federal government lawyers can help ensure that laws are faithfully administered to address the contemporary…The postThe Federal General Counsel, Law,...
Constitutions of Ice and Fire
This world is vast, dangerous, and dying. You take your first steps, uncertain of who you are, where you are going, or who is responsible for the conditions in which you find yourself. You can learn more, but you will...
History and Fetishism in the New Separation of Powers Formalism
In the last few years, the Supreme Court has embraced a formalist approach to separation of powers law, allegedly justified by the Constitution’s “original meaning.” It is revolutionary, rapidly remaking the constitutional law of administration. But the Court’s engagement with...
Content Neutrality for Kids: Intermediate Scrutiny for Social Media Age-Verification Laws
The kids are not okay. Evidence of decreasing school performance, increasing rates of depression and anxiety, and declining social engagement among minors has created...The postContent Neutrality for Kids: Intermediate Scrutiny for Social Media Age-Verification Lawsappeared first onHarvard Law Review.
THE REGULATION OF THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IN WARFARE: between International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Meaningful Human Control
The proper principles for the regulation of autonomous weapons were studied here, some of which have already been inserted in International Humanitarian Law (IHL), and others are still merely theoretical. The differentiation between civilians and non-civilians, the solution of liability...
(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...
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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:...
Legislative Text Analysis from Judicial Case Reports Using Machine Learning
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A Great American Gun Myth: Race and the Naming of the “Saturday Night Special” lawreview - Minnesota Law Review
By Jennifer L. Behrens and Joseph Blocher. Full Text. At a time when Second Amendment doctrine has taken a strongly historical turn and gun rights advocates have increasingly argued that gun regulation itself is historically racist, it is especially important...
CONVENIENT OR CONFRONTATIONAL?: SAMIA WIDENS CONSTITUTIONAL LOOPHOLE - Minnesota Law Review
By: Mark Hager, Volume 108 Staff Member On June 23, 2023, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Samia v. United States, the latest in a line of cases regarding the use of non-testifying co-defendant confessions in joint criminal trials.[1]...
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DLJ will accept manuscripts in August (8/1-8/7)
Attention Authors: We are looking forward to filling our four remaining spots in Volume 71 this August! We will be accepting submissions through Scholastica from August 1 to August 7. If you would like us to review your manuscript, please...