Litigation

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...

Abstract This study investigates the extent to which the conclusion of a decision can be predicted from other parts of the decision from quasi-judicial institutions using machine learning. Predicting conclusions in quasi-judicial bodies poses unique challenges and opportunities because the...

This paper examines the evolution of legal personhood and explores whether historical precedents—from corporate personhood to environmental legal recognition—can inform frameworks for governing artificial intelligence (AI). By tracing the development of persona ficta in Roman law and subsequent expansions of...

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...

The profession of law has changed along with many other industries due to the quick development of artificial intelligence (AI). However, in applications specialized to the legal domain, general-purpose AI models like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Gemini show limits. This evaluation...

<p>Machine learning (ML) has been widely adopted in many software applications across domains. However, accompanying the outstanding performance, the behaviors of the ML models, which are essentially a kind of black-box software, could be unfair and hard to understand in...

Introduction The Undergraduate Minor in Legal Studies, designed and taught by Vanderbilt Law faculty, offers a comprehensive introduction to law for Vanderbilt undergraduate students. Through five courses (15 credits) and supplemental programming through Legal Studies and Pre-Law Advising, students will...

Abstract As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into climate prediction systems, questions of ethical governance and accountability have emerged as critical but underexplored challenges. While international frameworks provide general AI governance principles, their application to environmental science contexts remains...

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,...

[Context] Semantic legal metadata provides information that helps with understanding and interpreting the meaning of legal provisions. Such metadata is important for the systematic analysis of legal requirements. [Objectives] Our work is motivated by two observations: (1) The existing requirements...

Judicial documents and judgments are a rich source of information about legal cases, litigants, and judicial decision-makers. Natural language processing (NLP) based approaches have recently received much attention for their ability to decipher implicit information from text. NLP researchers have...

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...

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...

Abstract The increasing use of artificial intelligence in video game development, particularly through advanced procedural content generation, challenges traditional copyright frameworks. While AI-generated content is now integral to enhancing efficiency and player experience, its copyright status remains disputed, especially regarding...

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...

The Wisconsin Law Review presents: The Shadow Carceral State Registration available here.Date and Time Friday, September 26 9:00am – 5:30pm CDT Location Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 227 State Street Madison, WI 53703 CLE for this event is pending.Summary On...

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...

This article explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on legal knowledge work, examining the evolution from traditional document-centric processes to sophisticated AI-augmented workflows. The article shows the technological foundations of legal AI systems, highlighting the capabilities and limitations of...

Abstract Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) technologies present great opportunities for the investment management industry (as well as broader financial services). However, there are presently no regulations specifically aiming at AI in investment management. Does this mean that AI is currently unregulated?...

Abstract The recent computational turn carries the potential to both enrich and destabilise international law research. Epistemologically, it offers a repertoire of data science methods, including network analysis, text processing and analysis, machine learning, and large language and agent-based models....

Can a business-closure regulation of commercial property in a pandemic be a taking? In the midst of a pandemic, it generally falls to government to enact laws and regulations in an effort to curtail the spread of disease. For example,...

Claims, disputes, and litigations are major legal issues in construction projects, which often result in cost overruns, delays, and adverse working relationships among the contracting parties. Recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) techniques offer great potentials that can process...

In today’s world, legal systems are often difficult to navigate due to the complexity of legal language, time-consuming procedures, and high costs involved in seeking professional legal help. Legal documents are filled with technical jargon and structured in a way...

The kids are not okay. Evidence of decreasing school performance, increasing rates of depression and anxiety, and declining social engagement among minors has created...The postContent Neutrality for Kids: Intermediate Scrutiny for Social Media Age-Verification Lawsappeared first onHarvard Law Review.

As methods in legal information retrieval (IR) evolve to meet the demands of rapidly increasing stores of electronic information, there is the intuitive appeal of capturing detail in legal queries with natural language processing (NLP). One difficulty with this approach...

Abstract Cultural differences pose a serious challenge to the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence (AI) from a global perspective. Cultural differences may enable malignant actors to disregard the demand of important ethical values or even to justify the violation...

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Although computers and digital technologies have existed for many decades, their capabilities today have changed dramatically. Current buzzwords like Big Data, artificial intelligence, robotics, and blockchain are shorthand for further leaps in development. The digitalisation of communication, which is a...