Ethical Considerations and Fundamental Principles of Large Language Models in Medical Education: Viewpoint
This viewpoint article first explores the ethical challenges associated with the future application of large language models (LLMs) in the context of medical education. These challenges include not only ethical concerns related to the development of LLMs, such as artificial...
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...
AI governance: a systematic literature review
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...
Office of Culture & Community
Our community brings together those with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, identities, and preferences, and each member contributes to school life through their own distinctive set of viewpoints, experiences, and ideas.We celebrate this diversity. We cherish it.We believe that it can fully...
Computational law
Computational law is an approach to automated legal reasoning focusing on semantically rich laws, regulations, contract terms, and business rules in the context of electronically-mediated actions. Current computational tools for electronic commerce fall short of the demands of business, organizations,...
Unwanted Pregnancy: Sex, Contraception, and the Limits of Consent lawreview - Minnesota Law Review
By DEBORAH TUERKHEIMER. Full Text. Rape exceptions to abortion bans, widely popular among the American electorate, are cleaved from a rule that defines pregnancy as the byproduct of choice. According to the logic of this rule and its remarkably limited...
GPT-3: Its Nature, Scope, Limits, and Consequences
Abstract In this commentary, we discuss the nature of reversible and irreversible questions, that is, questions that may enable one to identify the nature of the source of their answers. We then introduce GPT-3, a third-generation, autoregressive language model that...
Proportional Possession
American eviction proceedings are governed by a fusion of property and contract law. The law’s narrow understanding of eviction ignores the importance of a dwelling place to its occupants. Property is not merely land or a structure on that land;...
Legal Database Renewal in the AI Era: Insights from Eversheds Sutherland’s AI Strategy
Abstract This article, written by Andrew Thatcher , explores Eversheds Sutherland’s approach to integrating generative AI knowledge tools, focusing on their evaluation, onboarding and the subscription management. Rather than debating the broader implications of AI in law, the paper provides...
READY, AIM, FIRE? EVALUATING THE FUTURE OF LIABILITY FOR THE FIREARMS INDUSTRY DURING NEW-WAVE PLCAA LITIGATION - Minnesota Law Review
By: Will Roberts, Volume 108 Staff Member I. MECHANISMS FOR FIREARMS INDUSTRY LIABILITY In 2005, Congress enacted the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) which significantly shielded members of the firearms industry from civil liability for over a...
Standard Structure of Legal Provisions -For The Legal Knowledge Processing by Natural Language-
Student Organizations
Vanderbilt law students are active, public-minded, and come from a variety of backgrounds - all qualities reflected by a wide variety of thriving student organizations at the law school. Even with little free time, most students find it worthwhile to...
Digital Monsters: Reconciling AI Narratives as Investigations of Legal Personhood for Artificial Intelligence
Cultural legal investigations of the nexus between law, culture and society are crucial for developing our understanding of how the relationships between humans and artificially intelligent entities (AIE) will evolve along with the technology itself. However, narratives of artificial intelligence...
Pervasive Computational Law
Computational law has its limits—whether these come from the very nature of the law itself or from technical limitations. By reviewing these limits, two conclusions become clear: That interdisciplinary solutions are a must, and that only a subset of law...
Protecting Our Health Care Providers from Liability in a Pandemic
While COVID-19 creates profound medical concerns for health care providers, it also creates fear of potential lawsuits. Clinicians are forced to ration scarce resources, such as ventilators, when there is an inadequate supply. Medical professionals describe chaos in hospitals that...
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Pressing Charges: Criminal Fees and the Excessive Fines Clause lawreview - Minnesota Law Review
By ANNEMARIE FOY. Full Text. Millions of people owe money to the government as a consequence of a criminal charge. But while some of that debt is tied to fines or restitution, much of it is levied as fees, or...
Artificial Intelligence in Business Law: Navigating Regulation, Ethics, and Governance
Abstract: This chapter examines the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in business law, focusing on the regulatory, ethical, and governance challenges it presents. As AI applications in legal processes grow—ranging from compliance automation and contract management to risk assessment...
A Critical View of Laws and Regulations of Artificial Intelligence in India and China
This research paper deals with the general understanding of AI technology and its laws and regulations in India and China. It examines this issue from developing countries perspective and focusing on India and China, as they represent around 40 %...
Possibilities of using artificial intelligence and natural language processing to analyse legal norms and interpret them
The study aaddressed the possibilities of using information technology and natural language in the study of legal norms. The study aimed to develop methods for using artificial intelligence and natural language processing to analyse jurisprudence. To achieve this goal, automatic...
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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...
Terms of use of judicial acts for machine learning (analysis of some judicial decisions on the protection of property rights).
The subject of the article is some judicial acts on cases concerning protection of private property issued in Russia in recent years in the context of changes in the procedural legislation and legislation on the judicial system. The purpose of...
Geometric Conservation Law and Its Application to Flow Computations on Moving Grids
Boundary-conforming coordinate transformations are used widely to map a flow region onto a computational space in which a finite-difference solution to the differential flow conservation laws is carried out. This method entails difficulties with maintenance of global conservation and with...
Machine Ethics: The Design and Governance of Ethical AI and Autonomous Systems [Scanning the Issue]
The so-called fourth industrial revolution and its economic and societal implications are no longer solely an academic concern, but a matter for political as well as public debate. Characterized as the convergence of robotics, AI, autonomous systems and information technology...
Predictive Policing for Reform? Indeterminacy and Intervention in Big Data Policing
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...
Suno AI and musings of copyright: An enquiry into fair learning and infringement analysis of generative AI creation
Abstract Music is a language that is spoken between the performer and the listener. Platforms like SUNO AI have enabled even non‐musicians to create music and don the hats of composers by giving few prompts without understanding the language in...
Predictive policing and algorithmic fairness
Abstract This paper examines racial discrimination and algorithmic bias in predictive policing algorithms (PPAs), an emerging technology designed to predict threats and suggest solutions in law enforcement. We first describe what discrimination is in a case study of Chicago’s PPA....
A HAZY FIVE HOURS: MINNESOTA SHOULD NOT REINVENT THE WHEEL IN ADDRESSING THC BEVERAGES IN RESTAURANTS - Minnesota Law Review
By Shannon Schooley, Volume 108 Staff Member In 2023, Minnesota legalized recreational cannabis.[1] Although Minnesota followed twenty-two states and the District of Columbia in doing so,[2] its legal landscape presents unique regulatory challenges.[3] Minnesota’s full-scale recreational legalization comes on the...
Teaching fairness to artificial intelligence: Existing and novel strategies against algorithmic discrimination under EU law
Empirical evidence is mounting that artificial intelligence applications threaten to discriminate against legally protected groups. This raises intricate questions for EU law. The existing categories of EU anti-discrimination law do not provide an easy fit for algorithmic decision making. Furthermore,...
Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of many digital technologies currently under development.1 In recent years, it is having increasing repercussions in the field of law. These repercussions go beyond the traditional effect of an economic and industrial evolution. Indeed, the...