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Conversational Explanations of Machine Learning Predictions Through Class-contrastive Counterfactual Statements
Machine learning models have become pervasive in our everyday life; they decide on important matters influencing our education, employment and judicial system. Many of these predictive systems are commercial products protected by trade secrets, hence their decision-making is opaque. Therefore,...
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Recruiting Events Each year, Vanderbilt Law School LL.M. admissions representatives attend a variety of student recruiting events across the globe. This year, we will be attending a number of in-person and virtual events, including the LSAC Digital Forums, virtual LL.M....
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...
(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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2025-26 Academic Calendar Please note: All times in U.S. Central. EventDate / Time First Registration Appointment Window (all 3Ls)June 16 (YES opens at 12:35 PM) thru June 22 (YES closes at 11:59 PM) Second Registration Appointment Window (all 2Ls/3Ls)June 23...
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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...
DLJ has elected a new board for Volume 72
Duke Law Journal is proud to announce the newly elected Executive Board for Volume 72: Editor-in-Chief: Zachary Sanfilippo Managing Editor: Rebekah Strotman Senior Articles Editor: Sean A. Berman Senior Notes Editor: Mary Genevieve Sanner Senior Research Editor: Chelsea Garber Senior...
Profs. Joseph Blocher & Brandon Garrett Discuss “Fact Stripping” with Judge Paul Grimm
November 9, 2023 Last month, Professors Joseph Blocher and Brandon Garrett discussed their recent Article, “Fact Stripping,” with Judge Paul Grimm, the director of the Bolch Judicial Institute. Listen to their conversation below, and read their Article here.The postProfs. Joseph...
Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Works: Exploring Originality and Ownership in a Digital Landscape
Abstract This research explores AI-generated originality's impact on copyright regulations. It meticulously examines legal frameworks such as the Berne Convention, EU Copyright Law, and national legislation. Rigorously analyzing cases, including Infopaq International A/S v Danske Dagblades Forening and Levola Hengelo...
Good models borrow, great models steal: intellectual property rights and generative AI
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...
Working with Statutes
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,...
Fast Cars, Open Highways, and Bulk Data Collection: Fourth Amendment Limits on Police Use of Smart Infrastructure
Introduction Traffic lights today are not just signals—they are sensors, too. “Smart” infrastructure is quickly but quietly lining public roads. Forty percent of American intersections will be smart by 2040.[1] This digitization would happen sooner if traffic authorities were not...
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,...
Drug Scheduling as Institutional Design
The United States makes bad choices when it comes to psychoactive drugs. Under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), U.S. drug law has simultaneously fueled mass incarceration, inhibited needed access, and enabled an opioid crisis.The postDrug Scheduling as Institutional Designappeared first...
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...
The Semantics of Jury Nullification: How Terminology Shapes (and Misshapes) the Jury’s Role
Sometimes what we call a practice can matter just as much as the practice itself. Jury nullification has a storied history dating back to...The postThe Semantics of Jury Nullification: How Terminology Shapes (and Misshapes) the Jury’s Roleappeared first onHarvard Law...
Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute, Inc. v. Secretary, Florida Department of State
State constitutions serve as important sources of individual rights. They often extend broader protections than the Federal Constitution and have, in some instances, included...The post<em>Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute, Inc. v. Secretary, Florida Department of State</em>appeared first onHarvard Law...
People v. Thompson
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.