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Moneyball for Lawyers: Changing the Game with Analytics
May 6, 2018
The use of analytics has permeated into various industries, from baseball to banking, but could it be invaluable to lawyers...
May 6, 2018
The use of analytics has permeated into various industries, from baseball to banking, but could it be invaluable to lawyers...
The Law and Big Data
May 3, 2018
To illustrate Big Data’s potentially pervasive effects, examples can be drawn from many legal perspectives, including civil litigants and banking regulators. For example, there are several ways in which law can be “personalized” using Big Data. The personalized law business model would involve synthesizing large amounts of data regarding the course and resolution of all manner of legal issues. Sophisticated predictive analytic software would be used to analyze data and compare it to the facts...
May 3, 2018
To illustrate Big Data’s potentially pervasive effects, examples can be drawn from many legal perspectives, including civil litigants and banking regulators. For example, there are several ways in which law can be “personalized” using Big Data. The personalized law business model would involve synthesizing large amounts of data regarding the course and resolution of all manner of legal issues. Sophisticated predictive analytic software would be used to analyze data and compare it to the facts...
Statutory Interpretation on the Bench: A Survey of Forty-Two Judges on the Federal Courts of Appeals
May 2, 2018
This Article reports the results of a survey of a diverse group of forty-two federal appellate judges concerning their approaches to statutory interpretation. The study reveals important differences between their approaches and the approach that the Supreme Court purports to take. It also helps to substantiate the irrelevance of the enduring, but now-boring, textualism-versus-purposivism debate. None of the judges we interviewed was willing to associate himself or herself with “textualism” without...
May 2, 2018
This Article reports the results of a survey of a diverse group of forty-two federal appellate judges concerning their approaches to statutory interpretation. The study reveals important differences between their approaches and the approach that the Supreme Court purports to take. It also helps to substantiate the irrelevance of the enduring, but now-boring, textualism-versus-purposivism debate. None of the judges we interviewed was willing to associate himself or herself with “textualism” without...
Informed Decision-Making in Judicial Mediation and the Assessment of Litigation Risk
May 2, 2018
While much has been written about how mediators can guide parties through impasse, the popular literature is less attentive...
May 2, 2018
While much has been written about how mediators can guide parties through impasse, the popular literature is less attentive...
Product Liability Litigation Report Focuses on Burgeoning Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Product Case Filings
April 30, 2018
MDL-associated cases comprise more than 97% of medical device/pharmaceutical cases filed in 2017, with only 667 of the 29,185...
April 30, 2018
MDL-associated cases comprise more than 97% of medical device/pharmaceutical cases filed in 2017, with only 667 of the 29,185...
Price on AI in Health Care
April 28, 2018
W. Nicholson Price (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Applications and Legal Issues (14 SciTech Lawyer 10 (2017)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly moving to change the healthcare system. Driven by the juxtaposition of big data and powerful machine learning techniques, innovators have begun to develop tools to improve the process of clinical care, to advance medical research, and to improve efficiency....
April 28, 2018
W. Nicholson Price (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Applications and Legal Issues (14 SciTech Lawyer 10 (2017)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly moving to change the healthcare system. Driven by the juxtaposition of big data and powerful machine learning techniques, innovators have begun to develop tools to improve the process of clinical care, to advance medical research, and to improve efficiency....
Robots Break New Ground in Construction Industry
April 28, 2018
Now the former Google engineer is turning that dream into a reality with Built Robotics, a startup that’s developing technology to allow bulldozers, excavators and other construction vehicles to operate themselves. “The idea behind Built Robotics is to use automation technology make construction safer, faster and cheaper,” said Ready-Campbell, standing in a dirt lot where a small bulldozer moved mounds of earth without a human operator. “We need all of the robots we can get,...
April 28, 2018
Now the former Google engineer is turning that dream into a reality with Built Robotics, a startup that’s developing technology to allow bulldozers, excavators and other construction vehicles to operate themselves. “The idea behind Built Robotics is to use automation technology make construction safer, faster and cheaper,” said Ready-Campbell, standing in a dirt lot where a small bulldozer moved mounds of earth without a human operator. “We need all of the robots we can get,...
Cognitive Biases and Risk Management
April 26, 2018
Research also detected that risk perceptions are influenced by the emotional state of the perceiver (Bodenhausen, 1993). According to valence theory, positive emotions lead to optimistic risk perceptions whereas negative emotions incite a more pessimistic view of risk (Lerner, 2000). The earliest psychometric research was performed by psychologists Daniel Kahneman (who later won a Nobel Prize in economics with Vernon Smith “for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic...
April 26, 2018
Research also detected that risk perceptions are influenced by the emotional state of the perceiver (Bodenhausen, 1993). According to valence theory, positive emotions lead to optimistic risk perceptions whereas negative emotions incite a more pessimistic view of risk (Lerner, 2000). The earliest psychometric research was performed by psychologists Daniel Kahneman (who later won a Nobel Prize in economics with Vernon Smith “for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic...
Different Ways of Seeing The Same Thing!
April 26, 2018
In a March 13, 2018 post, LiveScience.com contributor Jasmin Malik Chua published an article on the value of optical illusions. Entitled “What This Optical Illusion Reveals About the Human Brain”, Ms. Chua replicates a 19th century optical illusion which can be either a rabbit or a duck, but not both at the same time. She explains: “…First published in 1892 by a German humor magazine, the figure was made popular after the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein used it to illustrate two ways of seeing....
April 26, 2018
In a March 13, 2018 post, LiveScience.com contributor Jasmin Malik Chua published an article on the value of optical illusions. Entitled “What This Optical Illusion Reveals About the Human Brain”, Ms. Chua replicates a 19th century optical illusion which can be either a rabbit or a duck, but not both at the same time. She explains: “…First published in 1892 by a German humor magazine, the figure was made popular after the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein used it to illustrate two ways of seeing....
Keet, Heavin, & Sparrow on the Psychological Cost of Civil Litigation
April 25, 2018
Michaela Keet, Heather D. Heavin and Shawna Sparrow (University of Saskatchewan College of Law, University of Saskatchewan...
April 25, 2018
Michaela Keet, Heather D. Heavin and Shawna Sparrow (University of Saskatchewan College of Law, University of Saskatchewan...
