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...
AI copyright policy considerations for Botswana and South Africa – Compensation for starving artists feeding generative AI
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...
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...
Law as computation in the era of artificial legal intelligence: Speaking law to the power of statistics
The idea of artificial legal intelligence stems from a previous wave of artificial intelligence, then called jurimetrics. It was based on an algorithmic understanding of law, celebrating logic as the sole ingredient for proper legal argumentation. However, as Oliver Wendell...
A Tribute to Sarah Lee Best
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...
Application of artificial intelligence in the judiciary and its applicability in North Macedonia
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in various industries has spurred curiosity about its potential role in reshaping the judiciary. This scientific paper delves into the application of AI within the judicial system and examines its potential impact in North...
Algorithmic regulation and the rule of law
In this brief contribution, I distinguish between code-driven and data-driven regulation as novel instantiations of legal regulation. Before moving deeper into data-driven regulation, I explain the difference between law and regulation, and the relevance of such a difference for 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...
Refining the Dangerousness Standard in Felon Disarmament lawreview - Minnesota Law Review
By Jamie G. McWilliam. Full Text. To some, 18 U.S.C. 922(g) is a necessary safeguard that keeps guns out of the hands of dangerous persons. To others, it strips classes of non-violent people of their natural and constitutional rights. This...
Per Se Non-Takings
Introduction Contestation over methodology remains an enduring friction point in the discourse on the Takings Clause. For decades, the Supreme Court’s takings jurisprudence has vacillated between categorical, per se reasoning and contextual, ad hoc inquiries into what fairness and justice...
A Right to Reasonable Inferences: Re-Thinking Data Protection Law in the Age of Big Data and AI
Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) draw non-intuitive and unverifiable inferences and predictions about the behaviors, preferences, and private lives of individuals. These inferences draw on highly diverse and feature-rich data of unpredictable value, and create new opportunities for...
Aether, Radiation, Mass-Energy Law, Gravity and Inertia
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...
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Good models borrow, great models steal: intellectual property rights and generative AI
Abstract Two critical policy questions will determine the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on the knowledge economy and the creative sector. The first concerns how we think about the training of such models—in particular, whether the creators or owners...
Volume 2025, No. 6
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...
WLR Forward
Wisconsin Law Review Forward is an online only publication intended to move conversations in legal academia forward by providing a forum for the quick publication of topical and timely pieces that would otherwise be delayed by our production schedule for...
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...
LexNLP: Natural language processing and information extraction for legal and regulatory texts
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...
Artificial Intelligence and the Copyright Survey
Career Services for Employers
2026 Winter Mingle January 28th, 2026 at the Music City Center in Nashville, TNThis year’s Winter Mingle will take a slightly different approach, bringing together all VLS students for the event. It’s an excellent opportunity to connect with students and...
Survey of Text Mining Techniques Applied to Judicial Decisions Prediction
This paper reviews the most recent literature on experiments with different Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques applied to predict judicial and administrative decisions. Among the most outstanding findings, we have that the most used data mining...
AI and IP: Theory to Policy and Back Again – Policy and Research Recommendations at the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property
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...
UW Theme 2.0 is now available!
Welcome the UW Theme! The kitchen sink page is your guide to all the visual page elements currently available through the theme. If you prefer to print out your options, please download the current component key (pdf). This WordPress theme...
Protecting Intellectual Property With Reliable Availability of Learning Models in AI-Based Cybersecurity Services
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based cybersecurity services offer significant promise in many scenarios, including malware detection, content supervision, and so on. Meanwhile, many commercial and government applications have raised the need for intellectual property protection of using deep neural network (DNN). Existing...
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....
Artificial Intelligence Governed by Laws and Regulations
Legal Barriers in Developing Educational Technology
The integration of technology in education has transformed teaching and learning, making digital tools essential in the context of Industry 4.0. However, the rapid evolution of educational technology poses significant legal challenges that must be addressed for effective implementation. This...
Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Law and Regulation
Navigating the Dual Nature of Deepfakes: Ethical, Legal, and Technological Perspectives on Generative Artificial Intelligence AI) Technology
The rapid development of deepfake technology has opened up a range of groundbreaking opportunities while also introducing significant ethical challenges. This paper explores the complex impacts of deepfakes by drawing from fields such as computer science, ethics, media studies, and...
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