Data Handmaidens

This Essay expounds on the outsized role of private law in governing ownership of new technologies and data. As scholars lament gaps between law and...

Large language models (LLMs) now perform extremely well on many natural language processing tasks. Their ability to convert legal texts to data may...

Privacy is a key issue in AI regulation, especially in a sensitive area such as healthcare. The United States (US) has taken a sectoral approach to...

The 2024 edition of Selected Intellectual Property, Internet, and Information Law, Statutes, Regulations, and Treaties, edited by Professors Sharon K...

Fifty years ago, federal and state lawmakers called for the regulation of a criminal justice “databank” connecting federal, state, and local agencies...

The use of autonomy to initiate force, which states may begin to view as necessary to protect against hypersonic attacks and other forms of ‘hyperwar...

This chapter provides an overview of computational text analysis techniques used to study judicial behavior and decision-making. As legal texts become...

A crucial first step in addressing intimate-image abuse is its proper conceptualization. Intimate-image abuse amounts to a violation of intimate...

We live in a golden age of student surveillance. Some surveillance is old school: video cameras, school resource officers, and tip lines. Old-school...

A resilience agenda is an essential part of protecting national security in a digital age. Digital technologies impact nearly all aspects of everyday...

Cyber stalking involves repeated, often relentless targeting of someone with abuse. Death and rape threats may be part of a perpetrator’s playbook...

Generative AI is already beginning to alter legal practice. If optimistic forecasts prove warranted, how might this technology transform judicial...

Working hand-in-hand with the private sector, largely in a regulatory vacuum, policing agencies at the federal, state, and local level are acquiring...

This article argues that the fact that an action will compound a prior injustice counts as a reason against doing the action. I call this reason The...

This chapter examines several ways that the United States takes advantage of international law’s permissiveness and ambiguity to extend its criminal...

Congress is trying to roll up its sleeves and get to work on artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. In June, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) launched a...

The 2023 edition of Selected Intellectual Property, Internet, and Information Law Statutes, Regulations, and Treaties, edited by Professors Sharon K...

Innovative tools could collect the views of U.S. national security officials about what kinds of defense and intelligence AI we should use.