Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Law and Regulation
Algorithmic sovereignty and democratic resilience: rethinking AI governance in the age of generative AI
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...
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...
The New Regulation of the European Union on Artificial Intelligence: Fuzzy Ethics Diffuse into Domestic Law and Sideline International Law
IP’s Pluralism Puzzle
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...
Regulating Artificial Intelligence Systems: Risks, Challenges, Competencies, and Strategies
Practical Consequences in Statutory Interpretation
Modern textualism has long criticized the use of practical, or consequentialist, reasoning when construing statutes. And yet in practice, textualist jurists long have invoked practical consequences arguments to help justify their statutory constructions.The postPractical Consequences in Statutory Interpretationappeared first onHarvard...
Worldwide AI ethics: A review of 200 guidelines and recommendations for AI governance
The utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) applications has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, bringing forth numerous benefits and conveniences. However, this expansion has also provoked ethical concerns, such as privacy breaches, algorithmic discrimination, security and reliability issues, transparency, and...
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...
The Unpropertied Internet
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...
A Legal Stimulus
We need a legal stimulus. Not just a stimulus that is legal, but one that provides legal aid. That is why any further congressional stimulus should allocate additional funds specifically for legal services to individuals who, as a result of...
AI Training and Copyright: Should Intellectual Property Law Allow Machines to Learn?
This article examines the intricate legal landscape surrounding the use of copyrighted materials in the development of artificial intelligence (AI). It explores the rise of AI and its reliance on data, emphasizing the importance of data availability for machine learning...
Clinics & Experiential Learning
At Vanderbilt Law School, we firmly believe that a comprehensive legal education extends beyond textbooks and lecture halls. Our dynamic legal clinics, enriching experiential learning programs, and open-ended externships
Demystifying the Draft EU Artificial Intelligence Act — Analysing the good, the bad, and the unclear elements of the proposed approach
AI standardization promises to support the implementation of EU legislation and promote the rapid transfer,transparency, and interoperability of this massively disruptive technology. However, apart from well-known practical difficulties stemming from the unique probabilistic nature and the rapid development of AI...
Wisconsin Law Review’s 2024 Symposium
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,...
Design and Implementation of a Chatbot for Automated Legal Assistance using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
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...
Artificial intelligence as object of intellectual property in Indonesian law
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) has an important role in digital transformation worldwide, including in Indonesia. AI itself is a simulation of human intelligence that is modeled in machines and programmed to think like humans. At the time AI and the...
Exacerbating Algorithmic Bias through Fairness Attacks
Algorithmic fairness has attracted significant attention in recent years, with many quantitative measures suggested for characterizing the fairness of different machine learning algorithms. Despite this interest, the robustness of those fairness measures with respect to an intentional adversarial attack has...
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Volume 2025, No. 2
Residual State Power to Regulate Presidential Qualifications in The Wake Of Trump v. Anderson and Moore v. Harper by Vikram David Amar; History, Tradition, and Voter Registration by Joshua A. Douglas; “The Real Preference Of Voters”: Madison’s Idea of a...
The Regulation of Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence under the GDPR, Case Law and Proposed Legislation
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....
Elements of Information Theory
Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgments for the Second Edition. Acknowledgments for the First Edition. 1. Introduction and Preview. 1.1 Preview of the Book. 2. Entropy, Relative Entropy, and Mutual Information. 2.1 Entropy. 2.2 Joint...
Regulation of Artificial Intelligence systems, databases, and intellectual property
This Article refers to the regulation of AI systems, databases and intelectual property. Directive 96/9/CE of the European Council of March 11, 1996, which is pioneering legislation for the legal protection of databases and introduces concepts for the study database...
The Demise of the Functionality Doctrine in Design Patent Law
ARTICLE The Demise of the Functionality Doctrine in Design Patent Law Perry J. Saidman* The so-called doctrine of functionality arises in both design patent validity and infringement analyses. Broadly stated, the doctrine seeks to ensure that design patents do not...
AI-generated works and copyright law: towards a union of strange bedfellows
Journal Article AI-generated works and copyright law: towards a union of strange bedfellows Get access Emmanuel Salami Emmanuel Salami Email: Emmanuel.Salami@outlook.com. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice,...
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