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Attorneys Describe the Art of Dispute Resolution at RIMS
July 9, 2019
Sometimes parties in a coverage dispute may want to sit down face to face and come to an agreement. Toward that end, the RIMS conference offered a panel presentation by three attorneys and a risk manager who extolled the virtue of mediation. Giulio Zanolla, an attorney who owns Zanolla Mediation in New York, said the beauty of mediation is the parties involved get to decide exactly what it will involve. They can decide with whom they want to mediate, what issues need to be mediated and how the mediation...
July 9, 2019
Sometimes parties in a coverage dispute may want to sit down face to face and come to an agreement. Toward that end, the RIMS conference offered a panel presentation by three attorneys and a risk manager who extolled the virtue of mediation. Giulio Zanolla, an attorney who owns Zanolla Mediation in New York, said the beauty of mediation is the parties involved get to decide exactly what it will involve. They can decide with whom they want to mediate, what issues need to be mediated and how the mediation...
Artificial Intelligence and Law: An Overview
July 8, 2019
Much has been written recently about artificial intelligence (AI) and law. But what is AI, and what is its relation to the practice and administration of law? This article addresses those questions by providing a high-level overview of AI and its use within law. The discussion aims to be nuanced but also understandable to those without a technical background. To that end, I first discuss AI generally. I then turn to AI and how it is being used by lawyers in the practice of law, people and companies...
July 8, 2019
Much has been written recently about artificial intelligence (AI) and law. But what is AI, and what is its relation to the practice and administration of law? This article addresses those questions by providing a high-level overview of AI and its use within law. The discussion aims to be nuanced but also understandable to those without a technical background. To that end, I first discuss AI generally. I then turn to AI and how it is being used by lawyers in the practice of law, people and companies...
Trial by Jury: Why it Works and Why it Matters
July 7, 2019
I am an unabashed believer in the jury system, an unabashed believer that juries take their obligations as jurors seriously,...
July 7, 2019
I am an unabashed believer in the jury system, an unabashed believer that juries take their obligations as jurors seriously,...
DeepMind Can Now Beat Us at Multiplayer Games, Too
July 6, 2019
Chess and Go were child’s play. Now A.I. is winning at capture the flag. Will such skills translate to the real world? In a paper published on Thursday in Science (and previously available on the website arXiv before peer review), the researchers reported that they had designed automated “agents” that exhibited humanlike behavior when playing the capture the flag “game mode” inside Quake III. These agents were able to team up against human players or play alongside them,...
July 6, 2019
Chess and Go were child’s play. Now A.I. is winning at capture the flag. Will such skills translate to the real world? In a paper published on Thursday in Science (and previously available on the website arXiv before peer review), the researchers reported that they had designed automated “agents” that exhibited humanlike behavior when playing the capture the flag “game mode” inside Quake III. These agents were able to team up against human players or play alongside them,...
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...
Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
July 4, 2019
In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We...
July 4, 2019
In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We...
Lex Machina Antitrust Litigation Report Shows Decline in New Case Filings and Strong Influence of Multidistrict Litigation
July 3, 2019
Cases against pharmaceutical and chemical companies dominated new case filings The federal government was the top plaintiff...
July 3, 2019
Cases against pharmaceutical and chemical companies dominated new case filings The federal government was the top plaintiff...
The Peculiar Blindness of Experts
July 2, 2019
The pattern is by now familiar. In the 30 years since Ehrlich sent Simon a check, the track record of expert forecasters—in science, in economics, in politics—is as dismal as ever. In business, esteemed (and lavishly compensated) forecasters routinely are wildly wrong in their predictions of everything from the next stock-market correction to the next housing boom. Reliable insight into the future is possible, however. It just requires a style of thinking that’s uncommon among experts who are certain...
July 2, 2019
The pattern is by now familiar. In the 30 years since Ehrlich sent Simon a check, the track record of expert forecasters—in science, in economics, in politics—is as dismal as ever. In business, esteemed (and lavishly compensated) forecasters routinely are wildly wrong in their predictions of everything from the next stock-market correction to the next housing boom. Reliable insight into the future is possible, however. It just requires a style of thinking that’s uncommon among experts who are certain...
The Changing Landscape of Auditor Litigation and Its Implications for Audit Quality
July 1, 2019
Data from 1996 to 2016 shows that shareholder litigation against auditors has declined in recent years. Empirical evidence...
July 1, 2019
Data from 1996 to 2016 shows that shareholder litigation against auditors has declined in recent years. Empirical evidence...
How to Deal With a Jerk Without Being a Jerk
June 30, 2019
It’s natural to get defensive, but that only escalates the cycle of aggression. Research on the psychology of certified jerks reveals that they have a habit of rationalizing aggression. They’ve convinced themselves that they have to act that way to get the results they want. I didn’t know how to respond until recently, when I interviewed Sheila Heen, a conflict mediation expert, for an episode of my WorkLife podcast on office jerks. She suggested finding a way to gently challenge the belief...
June 30, 2019
It’s natural to get defensive, but that only escalates the cycle of aggression. Research on the psychology of certified jerks reveals that they have a habit of rationalizing aggression. They’ve convinced themselves that they have to act that way to get the results they want. I didn’t know how to respond until recently, when I interviewed Sheila Heen, a conflict mediation expert, for an episode of my WorkLife podcast on office jerks. She suggested finding a way to gently challenge the belief...
