International Law

The legal and ethical issues that confront society due to Artificial Intelligence (AI) include privacy and surveillance, bias or discrimination, and potentially the philosophical challenge is the role of human judgment. Concerns about newer digital technologies becoming a new source...

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]...

The widespread adoption of AI-powered business analytics applications has revolutionized decision-making, yet it has also introduced significant challenges related to algorithmic bias, data ethics, and governance. As organizations increasingly rely on machine learning and big data analytics for customer profiling,...

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...

In overturning Chevron, the Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision clearly changed the way in which courts must approach judicial review of agency actions interpreting statutes. But Loper Bright stopped well short of declaring that courts should always ignore agency interpretations...

Aim: The continuous growing influence of technologies based on artificial intelligence will continue to have an increasingly strong impact on various fields of society, which is evident in the generation of a great expectation in continuous evolution that revolutionises many...

The Minnesota Law Review (ISSN 0026-5535) is published six times a year in November, December, February, April, May, and June by the Minnesota Law Review Foundation, 285 Walter F. Mondale Hall, 229 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455. Periodicals postage...

Courts and the law are playing an increasingly important political role. Courts are redefining public policies decided by representative authorities, and citizens are using the law and rights-framed discourses as political tools to address private and social demands, as well...

ARTICLE Due Process of War Nathan S. Chapman* The application of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the government’s deprivation of rights during war is one of the most challenging and contested questions of constitutional law. The...

Introduction Modern society faces a paradox: While corporations can be useful engines of innovation and value creation, they increasingly operate as vectors for profound public harm beyond the reach of public regulation. The “economic and human tolls,” experts note, “almost...

Introduction In its 2024 decision overruling the decades-old Chevron[1] doctrine directing judges to accept an agency’s reasonable interpretation of ambiguous statutory language,[2] the Supreme Court declared: “[A]gencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do.”[3] In this Article,...

Immigrants, those with legal status and those without, individuals returning from incarceration, and individuals with time-consuming childcare and other family obligations often look to start microenterprises like street vending to provide for themselves and their families. However, many municipalities in...

The Wisconsin Law Review is a student-run journal of legal analysis and commentary that is used by professors, judges, practitioners, and others researching contemporary legal topics. The Wisconsin Law Review, which is published six times each year, includes professional and...

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...

Vanderbilt University is a globally renowned center for scholarly research, informed and creative teaching, and service to the community and society at large. The Vanderbilt community is committed to the highest academic standards, a spirit of intellectual freedom and a...

Gun owners and would-be gun purchasers are arguing that state measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus infringe on their Second Amendment rights. To the extent the premise is correct—the Second Amendment guarantees access to a firearm store—it’s...

The Trump Administration’s assault on the administrative state has received significant attention. But it is a mistake to interpret the weakening of the administrative state during the first or second Trump Administration as exceptional, or as a cyclical, asymmetric phenomenon...

Digital Earth applications provide a common ground for visualizing, simulating, and modeling real-world situations. The potential of Digital Earth applications has increased significantly with the evolution of artificial intelligence systems and the capacity to collect and process complex amounts of...

The advancement of technology, including the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in everyday life, has brought about significant changes and substantial impacts, especially in electronic transactions and law. While the use of AI promises various benefits, it also raises several...

Building on developments in machine learning and prior work in the science of judicial prediction, we construct a model designed to predict the behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States in a generalized, out-of-sample context. To do so,...

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...

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...

LexNLP is an open source Python package focused on natural language processing and machine learning for legal and regulatory text. The package includes functionality to (i) segment documents, (ii) identify key text such as titles and section headings, (iii) extract...

Predicting outcomes of legal cases may aid in the understanding of the judicial decision-making process. Outcomes can be predicted based on i) case-specific legal factors such as type of evidence ii) extra-legal factors such as the ideological direction of the...

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...

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 In 1975, a United States Senate Select Committee known as the Church Committee began a formal inquiry into the activities of the major U.S. intelligence agencies and exposed, for the first time, the true extent of their operations.[1] The...

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...