Penn State Dickinson Law professor Sara Gerke co-authors article in Science on artificial intelligence in healthcare
PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — Professor Sara Gerke co-authors a new piece in Science on the drawbacks of explainable artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in health care. Her co-authors include scholars from Harvard Law School, INSEAD, and the University of Toronto.
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — Professors Jeffrey Bellin, Adam Gershowitz and Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec of William & Mary Law School know that traditional casebooks—the backbone of legal education—are not only huge, dense, note-ridden, and extremely expensive, but they can be backbreaking for students with tight budgets and hours and hours of reading to get…
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Amani Carter L’22 in the Law School’s AI and Bias Lab, taught by Senior Adjunct Professor of Global Leadership Rangita de Silva de Alwis, has developed a new study on Unmasking Coded Bias.
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UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Joshua Blank, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Strategic Initiatives at UCI Law, has been selected to conduct a study of U.S. federal government agencies’ use of automated tools — such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and artificial intelligence — to explain the law to the public.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Online exam proctoring company ProctorU announced earlier this week that it will no longer send artificial intelligence-generated reports of potential student misconduct to institutions without ProctorU staff members first reviewing the footage — a development raising more questions than it answers.
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LAW 360 — A new study of law school faculty across the United States found that the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how these educators see their responsibilities and continues to shape legal education’s future.
Read More about Study looks at comfort with technology and online classes among law facultyTulane Law launches online graduate programs in energy and environmental law
ENVIRONMENT + LAW — Tulane University Law School is launching two new graduate degree programs to help today’s professionals better navigate the complex laws that are a part of their everyday life: MJ in Energy Law and MJ in Environmental Law.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Law schools have been adding courses designed to foster technological skills at least since the start of the last decade. Fifty schools offered programs on legal services delivery as of last year, according to an index of law school innovation Linna created.
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UTAH BUSINESS — BYU Law announced the development of Goodbye Record – an online resource assisting individuals, legislators, and corporate partners to address flaws in the expungement process, and implement solutions to permanently protect second chances for individuals who have had their records expunged.
Read More about BYU Law launches online resource to assist with expungement of criminal recordsNational Conference of Bar Examiners will not use facial recognition for online bar exams
BLOOMBERG LAW — Officials from the National Conference of Bar Examiners refute an earlier Bloomberg Law Insight about future bar exams administered via computer. They say the next generation of bar exams will be administered in-person on computers and monitored by on-site proctors and dispute the assertion that AI facial recognition technology was used in proctoring…
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