The Problem of Data Bias in the Pool of Published U.S. Appellate Court Opinions

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...

Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...

An upcoming Supreme Court case on Article III standing and disability presents critical questions about the future of litigation that promotes...

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...

On January 1, 2022, the most radical change to the American jury in at least thirty-five years occurred in Arizona: peremptory strikes, long a feature...

In recent years, the federal courts have seen a plethora of lawsuits originated by states challenging federal government actions. As a result, there...

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...

In the last few years, the Supreme Court has upended its doctrine of religious freedom under the First Amendment. The Court has explicitly rejected...

This casebook aspires to help students understand and think systematically about the techniques of statutory interpretation. It blends exposition with...

This Essay reports data on the impact of Bruen and its predecessor, Heller, on gun rights cases. Put mildly, the impact was substantial, not only in...