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The Wisconsin Law Review presents, Sept. 20, 2024: The 2024 Wisconsin Law Review SymposiumThe one-day symposium was hosted by Dean Dan Tokaji, University of Wisconsin Law School, and Professors Miriam Seifter and Rob Yablon of the State Democracy Research Initiative,...

Introduction At the core of intellectual property (IP) law lies a fundamental question of political philosophy: Can any argument justify the state’s grant of private property rights in intangibles?[1] To this question, scholars have responded that IP rights can be...

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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...

LexNLP is an open source Python package focused on natural language processing and machine learning for legal and regulatory text. The package includes functionality to (i) segment documents, (ii) identify key text such as titles and section headings, (iii) extract...

The data science technologies of artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), big data and behavioral/predictive analytics, and blockchain are poised to revolutionize government and create a new generation of GovTech start-ups. The impact from the ‘smartification’ of public services...

Copyright law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has the capacity to address the challenges associated with artificial intelligence (AI)-generated literary, artistic and scientific works. Under UAE copyright law, AI-generated works may qualify as copyright subject matter despite the non-human...

Abstract In the US context, critics of court use of algorithmic risk prediction algorithms have argued that COMPAS involves unfair machine bias because it generates higher false positive rates of predicted recidivism for black offenders than for white offenders. In...

Courts agree that the federal government may not seize a person in the United States and immediately ship them off to a prison in another country without providing any opportunity for judicial review. But this basic constitutional rule has proven...

The universal space, crisscrossed by electric fields from electric charges in bodies, is proposed to be the aether as a physical medium conceived by Maxwell, Einstein and others. The fields, in accordance with Coulomb’s law, balance out everywhere. Permittivity and...

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI) is completely turning the workforce upside down. This can be mainly attributed to the efficiency it brings to the organisation and educational institutions. With rapid digital developments observed across the globe, Generative AI is currently...

Autonomous cars will be working (among other things) thanks to a wide use of A.I. The regulation of Artificial intelligence has been a matter of debate for some time and different theories have been developed on how to govern A.I....

Introduction Theories of intellectual property (IP) tend to come in two varieties: “normative” theories that concern themselves with evaluating the extent to which IP rights are (or are not) justified, and “positive” theories that focus on explaining the origins or...

Big Data is increasingly mined to rank and rate individuals. Predictive algorithms assess whether we are good credit risks, desirable employees, reliable tenants, valuable customers—or deadbeats, shirkers, menaces, and “wastes of time.” Crucial opportunities are on the line, including the...

The increasing role of Artificial Intelligence in the area of medical science, transportation, aviation, space, education, entertainment (music, art, games, and films), industry, and many other sectors has transformed our day to day lives. The area of Intellectual Property Rights...

By ELLEN BART. Full Text. Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 (Title IX) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance and ensures that federal funds are not...

Evaluating whether machines improve on human performance is one of the central questions of machine learning. However, there are many domains where the data is <i>selectively labeled</i> in the sense that the observed outcomes are themselves a consequence of the...

By JOEL S. JOHNSON. Full Text. Both the historic rule of lenity and the new major questions doctrine rest on a fundamental commitment to the separation of powers for important policy questions. In light of that shared justification, the logic...

Legal research is a time-consuming and complex task that requires a deep understanding of legal language and principles. To assist lawyers and legal professionals in this process, an AI-based legal assistance system can be developed that utilizes natural language processing...

For future Internet-of-Things based Big Data applications, data collection from ubiquitous smart sensors with limited spectrum bandwidth is very challenging. On the other hand, to interpret the meaning behind the collected data, it is also challenging for an edge fusion...

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...

Sarah Best introduced herself to me in July 2019. She had worked that summer in the General Counsel’s Office at the U.S. Department of Education, and in the course of researching the application of the Indian-law canons of construction to...

It has often been said that the internet lacks public property. Unlike the offline world, denizens of cyberspace cannot gather in the digital equivalent of public parks, cannot shame websites by picketing on adjacent cyber-sidewalks, and cannot loiter in online...

This article examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on copyright and related rights in the context of today’s digital environment. The growing role of AI in creativity and content creation creates new challenges and questions regarding ownership, authorship and...

By Benjamin Albert Halevy, Volume 108 Staff Member From pull-tab vending machines at bars to tribe-owned casinos sporting slot machines and blackjack tables, Minnesota is no stranger to gambling within its borders. Yet, sports gambling, the fastest growing sector of...

Abstract The interaction between artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights (IPRs) is one of the key areas of development in intellectual property law. After much, albeit selective, debate, it seems to be gaining increasing practical relevance through intense AI-related market...