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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,...

The use of machine learning algorithms has permeated into nearly all aspects of life. With this steady integration, tasks previously handled by humans are increasingly falling into the ‘hands’ of machines. Ideally this would be celebrated as a great improvement...

China’s regulatory approaches to open-source resources and software deserve special attention due to the widespread global use of Chinese-developed solutions. China’s activity in the open-source software sector surged in 2020, laying the foundation for the type of innovations seen today....

By: Alyssa Shaw, Volume 109 Staff Member If the progress towards closing the gender wage gap continues on the trends of the last few years, women will not be compensated equally to men until at least 2067—over a century after...

Predictive analytics and artificial intelligence are applied widely across law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system. Despite criticism that such tools reinforce inequality and structural discrimination, proponents insist that they will nonetheless improve the equality and fairness of outcomes...

Ganesh Sitaraman Testifies Before U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee The airline industry is not resilient, competitive, or serving the public, and Congress must fix the miserable flying experience, Vanderbilt Law Professor Ganesh Sitaraman testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on...

In Online Courts and the Future of Justice, Richard Susskind, the world’s most cited author on the future of legal services, shows how litigation will be transformed by technology and proposes a solution to the global access-to-justice problem. In most...

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...

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By David Lamb. Full Text. At the same time that the deadly toll of gun violence continues to grow in the U.S., now taking nearly 50,000 lives per year, federal lawmakers and courts have increasingly constrained government authorities’ tools for...

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...

This Essay responds to the argument by Joshua Kroll, et al., in Accountable Algorithms, 165 U.PA.L.REV. 633 (2017), that technical tools can be more effective in ensuring the fairness of algorithms than insisting on transparency. When it comes to combating...

Adjudicating De Facto Parentage by Stephanie L. Tang; Behind the Bench: Unmasking the Judicial Role in North America’s Prolonged Access to Justice Crisis by Brajesh Ranjan; Abuse Victims Are Not Sleeping Away Their Day in Court: Claim Preclusion and Wisconsin...

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The balancing act which domestic intellectual property policy is now challenged to strike is between fostering growth in technological innovation and incentivising creative labour. Ordinarily, these two considerations should not be mutually exclusive, but generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) has...

This article examines Ayinde v London Borough of Haringey; Al-Haroun v Qatar National Bank [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin), a landmark High Court judgment addressing the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in legal practice. The case arose when counsels submitted...

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...

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...

Racial equality is an important theme of international human rights law, but it has been largely obscured when the overall face recognition accuracy is pursued blindly. More facts indicate racial bias indeed degrades the fairness of recognition system and the...

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,...

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Almost all law is expressed in natural language; therefore, natural language processing (NLP) is a key component of understanding and predicting law. Natural language processing converts unstructured text into a formal representation that computers can understand and analyze. This technology...

Vanderbilt Law School’s Career Services Team provides students with the resources and support they need to achieve their career goals. Career counselors meet individually with students on a regular basis to learn how to develop resumes, emphasize strengths, and identify...

The organizational use of artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly spread across various sectors. Alongside the awareness of the benefits brought by AI, there is a growing consensus on the necessity of tackling the risks and potential harms, such as bias...