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...
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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...
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AI ethics and data governance in the geospatial domain of Digital Earth
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...
When code isn’t law: rethinking regulation for artificial intelligence
Abstract This article examines the challenges of regulating artificial intelligence (AI) systems and proposes an adapted model of regulation suitable for AI's novel features. Unlike past technologies, AI systems built using techniques like deep learning cannot be directly analyzed, specified,...
Volume 2025, No. 5
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 &...
Legal Implications of Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology in Electronic Transactions
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...
An Adaptive Conceptualisation of Artificial Intelligence and the Law, Regulation and Ethics
The description of a combination of technologies as ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) is misleading. To ascribe intelligence to a statistical model without human attribution points towards an attempt at shifting legal, social, and ethical responsibilities to machines. This paper exposes the...
Trustworthy AI and Corporate Governance: The EU’s Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence from a Company Law Perspective
Abstract AI will change many aspects of the world we live in, including the way corporations are governed. Many efficiencies and improvements are likely, but there are also potential dangers, including the threat of harmful impacts on third parties, discriminatory...
DE-TRUMPING THE 2024 ELECTION? REVIEWING MINNESOTA’S ROLE IN THE MOVEMENT TO BAN DONALD TRUMP FROM THE BALLOT - Minnesota Law Review
By Callan Showers, Volume 108 Staff Member On November 2, 2023, the Minnesota Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether Donald Trump can lawfully appear on Minnesota’s ballots in the 2024 Presidential election due to his participation in efforts to...
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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...
Technologies of Violence: Law, Markets, and Innovation for Gun Safety
Introduction Guns play a variety of roles in American life—as tools of crime and self-defense, political symbols, markers of individual identity, instruments of recreation, and more. But at the most basic level, guns are a technology designed to inflict violence,...
Predicting Outcomes of Legal Cases based on Legal Factors using Classifiers
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...
Volume 2025, No. 2
Residual State Power to Regulate Presidential Qualifications in The Wake Of Trump v. Anderson and Moore v. Harper by Vikram David Amar; History, Tradition, and Voter Registration by Joshua A. Douglas; “The Real Preference Of Voters”: Madison’s Idea of a...
Operationalising AI governance through ethics-based auditing: an industry case study
AbstractEthics-based auditing (EBA) is a structured process whereby an entity’s past or present behaviour is assessed for consistency with moral principles or norms. Recently, EBA has attracted much attention as a governance mechanism that may help to bridge the gap...
Critical perspectives on AI in education: political economy, discrimination, commercialization, governance and ethics
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...
Solving the Special Forces Problem
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...
A Legal Stimulus
We need a legal stimulus. Not just a stimulus that is legal, but one that provides legal aid. That is why any further congressional stimulus should allocate additional funds specifically for legal services to individuals who, as a result of...
The Border Politics of Patents and the Immigrant Inventor
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,...
Refining the Dangerousness Standard in Felon Disarmament lawreview - Minnesota Law Review
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...
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Design Problems
Introduction For more than 40 years, the Federal Circuit required courts evaluating whether a claimed design was obvious to use a rigid and narrow set of criteria that were disconnected from design practice and almost invariably led courts to the...
Symposia Archive - Minnesota Law Review
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:...
The Impact of Developments in Artificial Intelligence on Copyright and other Intellectual Property Laws
Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of AI breakthroughs on copyright and challenges faced by intellectual property legal protection systems. Specifically, the study aims to analyze the implications of AI-generated works in the context of...
Volume 2025, No. 4
How Not to Democratize Algorithms by Ngozi Okidegbe; Missing Children Discrimination by Itay Ravid & Tanisha Brown; Justifications for Fair Uses by Pamela Samuelson; Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment from the Perspective of Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment...
A Law and Political Economy of Intellectual Property
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...