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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...

The surge in legal text production has amplified the workload for legal professionals, making many tasks repetitive and time-consuming. Furthermore, the complexity and specialized language of legal documents pose challenges not just for those in the legal domain but also...

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...

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...

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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 &...

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,...

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The Minnesota Law Review invites you to attend the Vol. 110 Symposium, "The Battle Will Not Be Over": 60 Years of the Voting Rights Act. As Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965, he warned that...

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...

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...

Abstract Two critical policy questions will determine the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on the knowledge economy and the creative sector. The first concerns how we think about the training of such models—in particular, whether the creators or owners...

Introduction Forty years ago, the Supreme Court decided New Jersey v. T.L.O.,[1] a landmark case about Fourth Amendment rights in schools. T.L.O. was a compromise. For the first time, the Court recognized that students have a right to be free...

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As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to spread, we have seen an increase in examples of AI systems reflecting or exacerbating societal bias, from racist facial recognition to sexist natural language processing. These biases threaten to overshadow AI’s...

The Supreme Court has long declared itself “supreme in the exposition of the law of the Constitution.” But that does not leave the state...The post<em>People v. Thompson</em>appeared first onHarvard Law Review.

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Abstract As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms a wide range of sectors and drives innovation, it also introduces different types of risks that should be identified, assessed, and mitigated. Various AI governance frameworks have been released recently by governments, organizations, and...

Introduction James Bradley Thayer may not be the best-known figure in the literature on constitutional interpretation, but his key ideas continue to attract attention and discussion. For over a century, scholars, judges, and Justices have been influenced by Thayer’s views...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

Computational Methods for Legal Analysis Computational analysis can be seen as the most recent innovation in the field of Empirical Legal Studies (ELS). It concerns the use of computer science and big data tools to collect, analyse and understand the...

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...

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of papers in the algorithmic fairness literature proposing various technical definitions of algorithmic bias and methods to mitigate bias. Whether these algorithmic bias mitigation methods would be permissible from a legal perspective...

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