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...
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...
Ethical and legal challenges of artificial intelligence-driven healthcare
Digital learning ecosystem at educational institutions: A content analysis of scholarly discourse
This paper explored the characteristics of the digital learning ecosystem (DLE) in educational institutions based on the analysis of English scholarly discourse from various sources between 2002 and 2021. The content analysis method was used to examine core conceptual elements...
Counsel Fees and Procedural Justice
Introduction Imagine you are charged with a felony. You are indigent, so the judge appoints a lawyer to represent you. Several months later, you are convicted and sentenced to almost nine years in prison. To your surprise, however, you are...
Predicting risk in criminal procedure: actuarial tools, algorithms, AI and judicial decision-making
Risk assessments are conducted at a number of decision points in criminal procedure including in bail, sentencing and parole as well as in determining extended supervision and continuing detention orders of high-risk offenders. Such risk assessments have traditionally been the...
Terms of use of judicial acts for machine learning (analysis of some judicial decisions on the protection of property rights).
The subject of the article is some judicial acts on cases concerning protection of private property issued in Russia in recent years in the context of changes in the procedural legislation and legislation on the judicial system. The purpose of...
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Fourth Amendment Equilibrium Adjustment in an Age of Technological Upheaval
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...
Principles alone cannot guarantee ethical AI
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....
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Data augmentation for fairness-aware machine learning
Researchers and practitioners in the fairness community have highlighted the ethical and legal challenges of using biased datasets in data-driven systems, with algorithmic bias being a major concern. Despite the rapidly growing body of literature on fairness in algorithmic decision-making,...
Pricing Solar Development Options
Introduction I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there. —Fyodor Dostoevsky The time to…The postPricing Solar Development Optionsappeared first...
Accessibility @ UW-Madison
Providing the university community the information they need to design an accessible environment. Ensuring equal access to programs, services, and events for people with disabilities is our shared responsibility towards right-doing and benefits everyone. Information for people with disabilities, whether...
Direito e inteligência artificial: desafios da regulação da IA no Sistema Judiciário Brasileiro
This article analyzes the challenges of regulating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Brazilian judicial system, considering the constitutional, ethical, and normative principles that guide the use of technologies within the Judiciary. The research examines the normative evolution promoted by the...
The Judicial Demand for Explainable Artificial Intelligence
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,...
Standard Structure of Legal Provisions -For The Legal Knowledge Processing by Natural Language-
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:...
Vision, status, and research topics of Natural Language Processing
Algorithmic sovereignty and democratic resilience: rethinking AI governance in the age of generative AI
The ethical application of biometric facial recognition technology
Decisions, Decisions: Machine Learning as a Tool to Identify Alcohol-use Disorder Treatment Seekers
Cultural Differences as Excuses? Human Rights and Cultural Values in Global Ethics and Governance of AI
Abstract Cultural differences pose a serious challenge to the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence (AI) from a global perspective. Cultural differences may enable malignant actors to disregard the demand of important ethical values or even to justify the violation...
Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy
The Algorithm Game
ARTICLE The Algorithm Game Jane Bambauer* & Tal Zarsky** Most of the discourse on algorithmic decisionmaking, whether it comes in the form of praise or warning, assumes that algorithms apply to a static world. But automated decisionmaking is a dynamic...
Computational wear prediction of artificial knee joints based on a new wear law and formulation
What’s Left of the New Deal State?
New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State. By Anthony Gregory. Harvard University Press. 2024. Pp. 473. $45. Introduction A vast body of scholarship situates itself in the…The postWhat’s Left of the New...
A Critical View of Laws and Regulations of Artificial Intelligence in India and China
This research paper deals with the general understanding of AI technology and its laws and regulations in India and China. It examines this issue from developing countries perspective and focusing on India and China, as they represent around 40 %...