Harvard Law and MIT Media Lab collaborate on artificial intelligence course
HARVARD LAW TODAY — Harvard Law School and MIT have come together to discuss how to regulate driverless cars, respond to fake news, and gain access to secret math formulas built to dispense justice. Two professors lead a lightning-fast discourse in their new, team-taught class, The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence.
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COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — Columbia Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic filed an amicus brief July 3 in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court in support of servicemembers challenging the Trump administration’s ban on military service by transgender individuals.
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ABA JOURNAL — Shasta Nelson, the author of Frientimacy: How to Deepen Friendships for Lifelong Health and Happiness, says loneliness is the No. 1 public health issue. This has implications for lawyers who often spend long hours working in isolation.
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ABA JOURNAL — A dramatic U.S. Supreme Court term, filled with blockbuster decisions, was overshadowed by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announcing his retirement immediately after the court released its last ruling. Simply put, a bad couple of weeks for liberals got a lot worse, while it is a time for conservatives to be jubilant.
Read More about Opinion: UC Berkeley Dean Chemerinsky – 2018 rulings signal future of the Supreme CourtUniversity libraries struggle to preserve media collections
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Irreplaceable audio and video recordings from the 20th century are languishing in university collections, deteriorating. For institutions tasked not only with creating knowledge, but also preserving it, this is a big problem.
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ABA JOURNAL — The Trump administration said it will abandon a policy that asked schools to consider race in admissions as a way to diversify campuses. The change rescinds seven Obama administration affirmative action guidelines. The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education announced the move in a joint letter.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded guidance issued by the Obama administration on how colleges can legally consider race and ethnicity in admissions decisions.
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ABA JOURNAL — The American Bar Association has filed a motion for summary judgment to dismiss the lawsuit brought by Florida Coastal School of Law, arguing that the accreditation dispute is not appropriate for federal court litigation.
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NATIONAL JURIST — First-year JD enrollment increased for the first time since 2010, albeit by a mere 36 students. JD enrollment is now at its lowest point in 42 years — with only 110,951 students, compared to 147,525 in 2010. That represent close to $1 billion in lost tuition revenue.
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BEFORE THE BAR — This article offers advice on how attorneys and law students can overcome anxiety when taking on their first court case.
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