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How Technology Changed Divorce
November 3, 2019
From Forbes: Thanks to technology, we can buy groceries online. We can search online for a job, a pet, even a spouse....
November 3, 2019
From Forbes: Thanks to technology, we can buy groceries online. We can search online for a job, a pet, even a spouse....
Hyundai Motor Group Unveils $35 Billion Investment Plan in Self-Driving Cars
November 2, 2019
Hyundai Motor Group said it plans to invest 41 trillion won ($35 billion) in mobility and other auto technologies by 2025, part of which will be directed to an ambitious effort to become more competitive in self-driving cars that has also received government backing.
November 2, 2019
Hyundai Motor Group said it plans to invest 41 trillion won ($35 billion) in mobility and other auto technologies by 2025, part of which will be directed to an ambitious effort to become more competitive in self-driving cars that has also received government backing.
On the Redesign of Accident Liability for the World of Autonomous Vehicles
September 29, 2019
This article proposes a scheme of liability that would desirably control accident risks in the coming world in which motor vehicles will be autonomous. In that world, travelers will not be drivers, rendering liability premised on driver fault irrelevant as a means of reducing accident dangers. Moreover, no other conventional principle of individual or of manufacturer liability would serve well to do so. Indeed, strict manufacturer liability, recommended by many commentators, would actually tend...
September 29, 2019
This article proposes a scheme of liability that would desirably control accident risks in the coming world in which motor vehicles will be autonomous. In that world, travelers will not be drivers, rendering liability premised on driver fault irrelevant as a means of reducing accident dangers. Moreover, no other conventional principle of individual or of manufacturer liability would serve well to do so. Indeed, strict manufacturer liability, recommended by many commentators, would actually tend...
Suffolk Legal Writing Students Will Get Free Licenses to WordRake Editing Software
September 21, 2019
Students in the first-year legal writing program at Suffolk University Law School this year will get free licenses to WordRake, a legal editing and proofreading add-in for Microsoft Word and Outlook designed for lawyers and other legal professionals. Suffolk’s legal writing program ranked third best in the nation in the U.S. News & World Report 2020 Best Law Schools Guide. The program’s director, Kathleen Elliott Vinson, said that WordRake is helpful to students because it requires...
September 21, 2019
Students in the first-year legal writing program at Suffolk University Law School this year will get free licenses to WordRake, a legal editing and proofreading add-in for Microsoft Word and Outlook designed for lawyers and other legal professionals. Suffolk’s legal writing program ranked third best in the nation in the U.S. News & World Report 2020 Best Law Schools Guide. The program’s director, Kathleen Elliott Vinson, said that WordRake is helpful to students because it requires...
Project Gives Legal Research Providers Free Access to Nearly Half Million Posts
September 8, 2019
LexBlog is making it’s aggregated and curated database of legal blogs freely available to legal research providers (libraries, legal research companies/platforms, AI solutions) via an enhanced RSS feed. Providers will have open and free access to almost a half a million legal blog posts and an ongoing feed of posts from 1,400 blogs and 23,000 blog authors – and growing by the day. These blogs include both blogs published on the LexBlog platform as well as blogs published elsewhere. Inclusion...
September 8, 2019
LexBlog is making it’s aggregated and curated database of legal blogs freely available to legal research providers (libraries, legal research companies/platforms, AI solutions) via an enhanced RSS feed. Providers will have open and free access to almost a half a million legal blog posts and an ongoing feed of posts from 1,400 blogs and 23,000 blog authors – and growing by the day. These blogs include both blogs published on the LexBlog platform as well as blogs published elsewhere. Inclusion...
Principles for a Judgement Editor Based on Binary Decision Diagrams
September 7, 2019
We introduce the theoretical principles that underlie the design of a software tool which could be used by judges for making decisions about litigations and for writing judgements. The tool is based on Binary Decision Diagrams (BDD), which are graphical representations of truth–valued functions associated to propositional formulas. Given a type of litigation, the tool asks questions to the judge; each question is represented by a propositional atom. Their answers, true or false, allow to evaluate...
September 7, 2019
We introduce the theoretical principles that underlie the design of a software tool which could be used by judges for making decisions about litigations and for writing judgements. The tool is based on Binary Decision Diagrams (BDD), which are graphical representations of truth–valued functions associated to propositional formulas. Given a type of litigation, the tool asks questions to the judge; each question is represented by a propositional atom. Their answers, true or false, allow to evaluate...
Movement on Federal Legislation for Autonomous Vehicles
August 31, 2019
Last year, the House passed legislation on autonomous vehicles, but a complementary bill died in the Senate. Given the lack of progress since then, industry leaders did not expect much to happen this year. In the past few weeks, however, a bipartisan group in both houses of Congress has held five meetings in an attempt to reach a deal. A new bill is reportedly being written. The Verge has the story.
August 31, 2019
Last year, the House passed legislation on autonomous vehicles, but a complementary bill died in the Senate. Given the lack of progress since then, industry leaders did not expect much to happen this year. In the past few weeks, however, a bipartisan group in both houses of Congress has held five meetings in an attempt to reach a deal. A new bill is reportedly being written. The Verge has the story.
Mind the Gap: Bringing Technology to the Mediation Table
August 8, 2019
Alyson Carrel, Clinical Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Law and Technology Initiatives at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and Noam Ebner, Professor of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Creighton University, have published “Mind the Gap: Bringing Technology to the Mediation Table,” Journal of Dispute Resolution, 2019 (2), 1-45. In their journal article, the authors discuss incorporating beneficial...
August 8, 2019
Alyson Carrel, Clinical Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Law and Technology Initiatives at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and Noam Ebner, Professor of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Creighton University, have published “Mind the Gap: Bringing Technology to the Mediation Table,” Journal of Dispute Resolution, 2019 (2), 1-45. In their journal article, the authors discuss incorporating beneficial...
Entrepreneurs’ Legal Status Choices and the C Corporation Survival Penalty
July 13, 2019
Foundational to the American Dream is the ability to easily and rapidly start a new business. Over the past quarter‐century, the limited liability company (LLC) dramatically shifted the choice of legal status calculus for entrepreneurs, and in its wake a consensus against the use of traditional C corporations by closely‐held firms emerged. The C corporation, scholars argued, had fatal drawbacks despite its simplicity: tax disadvantages as well as governance inflexibility. Due to historically...
July 13, 2019
Foundational to the American Dream is the ability to easily and rapidly start a new business. Over the past quarter‐century, the limited liability company (LLC) dramatically shifted the choice of legal status calculus for entrepreneurs, and in its wake a consensus against the use of traditional C corporations by closely‐held firms emerged. The C corporation, scholars argued, had fatal drawbacks despite its simplicity: tax disadvantages as well as governance inflexibility. Due to historically...
Huq on Machine Decision Making
July 5, 2019
Aziz Z. Huq (University of Chicago - Law School) has posted A Right to a Human Decision (Virginia Law Review, Vol. 105) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Recent advances in computational technologies have spurred anxiety about a shift of power from human to machine decision-makers. From prison sentences to loan approvals to college applications, corporate and state actors increasingly lean on machine learning tools (a subset of artificial intelligence) to allocate goods and to assign...
July 5, 2019
Aziz Z. Huq (University of Chicago - Law School) has posted A Right to a Human Decision (Virginia Law Review, Vol. 105) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Recent advances in computational technologies have spurred anxiety about a shift of power from human to machine decision-makers. From prison sentences to loan approvals to college applications, corporate and state actors increasingly lean on machine learning tools (a subset of artificial intelligence) to allocate goods and to assign...
