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Justice Scalia’s Jiggery-Pokery in Federal Arbitration Law
August 2, 2016
David S. Schwartz, Foley & Lardner Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, has published “Justice Scalia’s Jiggery-Pokery in Federal Arbitration Law,” Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 101, Headnotes 75 (2016); Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1387. In his journal article,Professor Schwartz examines the late United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s impact on federal arbitration law. Here is the abstract: “Jiggery-pokery,” a phrase...
August 2, 2016
David S. Schwartz, Foley & Lardner Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, has published “Justice Scalia’s Jiggery-Pokery in Federal Arbitration Law,” Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 101, Headnotes 75 (2016); Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1387. In his journal article,Professor Schwartz examines the late United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s impact on federal arbitration law. Here is the abstract: “Jiggery-pokery,” a phrase...
Arbitration: Delegation Means Delegation
August 2, 2016
In Kubala v. Supreme Production Services, the parties disputed whether an arbitration agreement reached an employment claim that arose before entry into the agreement. The district court found that it did not and denied the motion to compel arbitration. The Fifth Circuit reversed, finding this delegation clause “strikingly similar” to the one at issue in Rent-A-Center v. Jackson, 561 U.S. 63 (2010): “The arbitrator shall have the sole authority to rule on his/her own jurisdiction, including...
August 2, 2016
In Kubala v. Supreme Production Services, the parties disputed whether an arbitration agreement reached an employment claim that arose before entry into the agreement. The district court found that it did not and denied the motion to compel arbitration. The Fifth Circuit reversed, finding this delegation clause “strikingly similar” to the one at issue in Rent-A-Center v. Jackson, 561 U.S. 63 (2010): “The arbitrator shall have the sole authority to rule on his/her own jurisdiction, including...
AL Interview: Software is Eating Law – Legalese.com
August 1, 2016
Legalese co-founder Meng Weng Wong said in a recent video presentation that: ‘Law today is where software was 20 years ago.’ Can you expand on that idea? Who are the lost tribe of programmers? Lawyers! If you look across the professions, the one most similar to software is legal. The stuff of medicine is health and disease; the stuff of architecture is space and form; law is actors, obligations, prohibitions, consequences, time, rules. These flows of control and consequence are the province...
August 1, 2016
Legalese co-founder Meng Weng Wong said in a recent video presentation that: ‘Law today is where software was 20 years ago.’ Can you expand on that idea? Who are the lost tribe of programmers? Lawyers! If you look across the professions, the one most similar to software is legal. The stuff of medicine is health and disease; the stuff of architecture is space and form; law is actors, obligations, prohibitions, consequences, time, rules. These flows of control and consequence are the province...
IBM’s Watson AI Saved a Woman from Leukemia
August 1, 2016
It discovered a rare illness that doctors had missed. IBM's Watson has done everything from winning at Jeopardy to cooking exotic meals, but it appears to have accomplished its greatest feat yet: saving a life. University of Tokyo doctors report that the artificial intelligence diagnosed a 60-year-old woman's rare form of leukemia that had been incorrectly identified months earlier. The analytical machine took just 10 minutes to compare the patient's genetic changes with a database of 20 million...
August 1, 2016
It discovered a rare illness that doctors had missed. IBM's Watson has done everything from winning at Jeopardy to cooking exotic meals, but it appears to have accomplished its greatest feat yet: saving a life. University of Tokyo doctors report that the artificial intelligence diagnosed a 60-year-old woman's rare form of leukemia that had been incorrectly identified months earlier. The analytical machine took just 10 minutes to compare the patient's genetic changes with a database of 20 million...
Dallas COA Compels Arbitration in Injured Nurse’s Lawsuit Against Former Employer
August 1, 2016
Texas’ Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas has ordered an injured nurse’s lawsuit filed against his former employer...
August 1, 2016
Texas’ Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas has ordered an injured nurse’s lawsuit filed against his former employer...
Dentons and RAVN Team Up For Brexit Risk Analysis Project
July 31, 2016
Global law firm Dentons has teamed up with applied AI developer RAVN Systems to examine contracts that could be affected by Britain’s exit from the EU and its legal and regulatory umbrella. The project has been undertaken via Dentons’ technology development company, Nextlaw Labs. In a joint statement Dentons and RAVN said: ‘The technology automatically reviews high volumes of contract documentation to identify provisions that could potentially be impacted by the UK’s secession from...
July 31, 2016
Global law firm Dentons has teamed up with applied AI developer RAVN Systems to examine contracts that could be affected by Britain’s exit from the EU and its legal and regulatory umbrella. The project has been undertaken via Dentons’ technology development company, Nextlaw Labs. In a joint statement Dentons and RAVN said: ‘The technology automatically reviews high volumes of contract documentation to identify provisions that could potentially be impacted by the UK’s secession from...
O’Brien on Whether Class-Action Waivers Violate the NLRA
July 31, 2016
Christine O'Brien (Boston College - Management) has just posted on SSRN her article (forthcoming 19 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. ___)...
July 31, 2016
Christine O'Brien (Boston College - Management) has just posted on SSRN her article (forthcoming 19 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. ___)...
Minecraft Is a Testing Ground for Human-AI Collaboration
July 30, 2016
Microsoft turns the popular game into an “AI Olympics.” The blockish and slightly dorky computer game Minecraft may turn out to be a great place for humans and AI to learn how to work together. An experimental new version of the game, released by Microsoft researchers this month, can be used to train an AI to perform all sorts of tasks, from crossing bridges to building complex objects. The new platform, called Project Malmo, makes it possible for a learning algorithm to control a Minecraft...
July 30, 2016
Microsoft turns the popular game into an “AI Olympics.” The blockish and slightly dorky computer game Minecraft may turn out to be a great place for humans and AI to learn how to work together. An experimental new version of the game, released by Microsoft researchers this month, can be used to train an AI to perform all sorts of tasks, from crossing bridges to building complex objects. The new platform, called Project Malmo, makes it possible for a learning algorithm to control a Minecraft...
But What About Lawyers? A Q&A With Richard Susskind on AI in Law
July 30, 2016
Scholar and lecturer Susskind predicts that artificial intelligence in law will take off in the 2020s. Among those curious about the technology’s impact on the profession is Richard Susskind, a scholar and lecturer whose work includes “The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services.’” In his view, AI “really takes off” in the 2020s, and until then won’t go mainstream. And while he finds it funny that lawyers think “AI is on the way” for them in the next few years,...
July 30, 2016
Scholar and lecturer Susskind predicts that artificial intelligence in law will take off in the 2020s. Among those curious about the technology’s impact on the profession is Richard Susskind, a scholar and lecturer whose work includes “The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services.’” In his view, AI “really takes off” in the 2020s, and until then won’t go mainstream. And while he finds it funny that lawyers think “AI is on the way” for them in the next few years,...
Kim on Algorithmic Discrimination
July 29, 2016
Pauline Kim (Washington U.) has just posted on SSRN her article (forthcoming 2017 William & Mary Law Review) Data-Driven Discrimination at Work. Here's the abstract of this timely article: A data revolution is transforming the workplace. Employers are increasingly relying on algorithms to decide who gets interviewed, hired or promoted. Proponents of the new data science claim that automated decision systems can make better decisions faster, and are also fairer, because they replace biased...
July 29, 2016
Pauline Kim (Washington U.) has just posted on SSRN her article (forthcoming 2017 William & Mary Law Review) Data-Driven Discrimination at Work. Here's the abstract of this timely article: A data revolution is transforming the workplace. Employers are increasingly relying on algorithms to decide who gets interviewed, hired or promoted. Proponents of the new data science claim that automated decision systems can make better decisions faster, and are also fairer, because they replace biased...
