Faculty Impact June - Sept. 2017

Kevin Ashley publishes Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics: New Tools for Law Practice in the Digital Age with Cambridge University Press

Professor Kevin D. Ashley published his latest book Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics New Tools for Law Practice in the Digital Age with Cambridge University Press.

The book explores how the machine learning revolution, with the advent of text analytic programs like IBM's Watson and Debater, could impact the practice of law, specifically by connecting computational models of legal reasoning directly with legal text, generating arguments for and against particular outcomes, predicting outcomes and explaining these predictions with reasons that legal professionals will be able to evaluate for themselves.

Latest publications from Kevin D. Ashley

New Faculty Publications

Doug Branson, The Future of Tech is Female, NYU Press (2018, forthcoming).

Anthony Infanti, “Introduction to Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions,” chapter in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions, with Bridget J. Crawford, (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Vivian Curran “The Un-Common Law,” a chapter in Sustainable Diversity in Law. Essays in Memory of H. Patrick Glenn (eds. Helge Dedek & William Twining, forthcoming).

Elena Baylis, The Persuasive Authority of Internationalized Criminal Tribunals, 32 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 611 (2017).

Deborah Brake, Fighting the Rape Culture Wars Through the Preponderance of the Evidence Standard, 78 Mont. L. Rev. 109 (2017).

Deborah Brake, Back to Basics: Excavating the Sex Discrimination Roots of Campus Sexual Assault, 6 Tenn. J. of Race, Gender & Soc. Just. 7 (2017).

Pat K. Chew, Comparing the Effects of Judges' Gender and Arbitrators' Gender in Sex Discrimination Cases and Why It Matters, 32 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 195 (2017).

Mary Crossley, Ending-Life Decisions: Some Disability Perspectives, 33 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 893 (2017).

Mary Crossley, Black Health Matters: Disparities, Community Health, and Interest Convergence, 22 Mich. J. Race & L. 53 (2016).

Gerald Dickinson, Inclusionary Takings Legislation, 62 Vill. L. Rev. 135 (2017).

Gerald Dickinson, Landowners' FCC Dilemma: Rereading the Supreme Court's Armstrong Opinion After the Third Circuit's DePolo Ruling, 11 N.Y.U. J.L. & Liberty 218 (2017).

Matiangai Sirleaf, Ebola Does Not Fall from the Sky: Global Structural Violence and International Responsibility, 51 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. __ (2018).

Michael Madison, The Law of Intellectual Property, 5th ed., with Craig Allen Nard and Mark P. McKenna, (Wolters Kluwer, 2017).

John Burkoff, Acing Criminal Law, 3rd ed. (West Academic, 2017).

Jessie Allen selected to present at Harvard, Yale, Stanford Junior Scholars Forum

Professor Jessie Allen was selected for the 2017 Stanford/Yale/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. She presented her article, “Doctrine as a Disruptive Practice.” The article proposes a different way to think about legal reasoning that focuses on its psychological effects rather than its ability to identify legal outcomes.

Latest publications from Jessie Allen

Speaking Engagements

Mary Crossley spoke on the plenary panel on the Future of Medicaid at the Annual Health Law Professors Conference in June 2017, addressing the implications for persons with disabilities of proposed structural changes and funding cuts to Medicaid. Crossley also presented a preliminary version of her article, “Olmstead, Medicaid, and Integration,” at the July 2017 Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference, where she also moderated a panel on Public Health Law and Emergency Preparedness.

Ronald Brand presented “International Commercial Arbitration: Key Considerations in Adopting Legal Frameworks” at the Singapore Cooperation Program International Dispute Resolution Training Program in June 2017. Brand also presented “Drafting Choice of Forum Clauses for International Contracts: The International Legal Framework for Arbitration and Litigation” at Ningbo University School of Law in Ningbo, China.

Michael Madison gave a presentation, “Three Things About Things,” at the The Art and Science of the IP Deal conference at the University of Washington School of Law in April 2017. Madison also participated as a senior commentator at the Ninth Annual Junior Scholars in Intellectual Property Workshop at Michigan State University College of Law in May 2017 and gave an invited presentation, “What is Law School For? Teaching Through a Paradigm Shift” at the annual Vincent C. Immel Lecture on Teaching Law at St. Louis University School of Law.

Anthony Infanti presented at two separate panel sessions at the ABA Tax Section’s May 2017 meeting in Washington, D.C. Infanti presented his forthcoming book, Our Selfish Tax Laws. and discussed issues around IRS Notice 2017-15, the IRS’s most recent guidance to same-sex couples regarding retroactive application of United States v. Windsor. Infanti was honored for concluding his service as Chair of the Tax Section’s Teaching Taxation Committee.

Matiangai Sirleaf presented her forthcoming article, “Ebola Does Not Fall from the Sky: Global Structural Violence and International Responsibility,” at the Duke Law School Culp Colloquium in May 2017. Sirleaf also presented her emerging idea, “Shared but Differentiated Responsibility for Combatting Highly Infectious Neglected Diseases,” at the July 2017 11th Annual Lutie Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop at the University of Michigan Law School and at the Midatlantic Junior Faculty Forum at Richmond Law School in May 2017.

Haider Hamoudi spoke June 14 at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany. He discussed the manner in which Shi’i jurists engaged with the state in Iraq and concluded that the idea that they are “Quietist” and avoid political interventions out of principle is largely a myth.

Paul Finkelman presented a paper, “Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution: Is the United States Really the ‘Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?’” at Realizing Rights 2017: Human Rights and Constitutionalism, a conference at the University of Ottawa in June. He chaired a session on “Limits to Rights and Freedom of Expression in Modern Democracies.”

Faculty In The News

Criminal (In)Justice podcast with Pitt Law Professor David Harris celebrates 60th episode

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently highlighted the success of Pitt Law Professor David A. Harris' 90.5 WESA produced podcast, Criminal (In)Justice, which surpassed 60 episodes in July 2017.

The Post-Gazette noted Criminal (In)Justice benefits from a diverse roster of guests, including police chiefs, attorneys, journalists, policymakers and elected officials. Guests have included the creator of the popular true-crime podcast “Serial,” Sara Koenig; Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jesse Eisenger; Christina Swarns, the lead attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; and Pittsburgh’s former U.S. Attorney, David Hickton.

Harris regularly offers commentary and analysis to media, most recently speaking to NBC News in Study Suggests Asians Most Likely to Be Charged With Espionage and It’s Very Difficult to Convict Officers in Police Shootings, Experts Say. He was quoted by the Washington Post in What the police officer who shot Philando Castile said about the shooting and in What the Minneapolis police shooting tells us about the limits of body cameras. Harris also commented to Fox News in US restoring asset seizures -- with safeguards.

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Latest publications from David Harris

More Faculty In The News

Alan Meisel spoke to the New York Times in Jerry Canterbury, Whose Paralysis Led to Informed Consent Laws, Is Dead at 78.

David Hickton, Director of the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security, was quoted by the Associated Press in How to Fix Identity-Theft Issues Posed by the Equifax Hack. Hickton also was quoted by the ABA Journal in Feds started criminal investigation of Charlotte School of Law, according to civil filing.

Arthur Hellman spoke to MSN News in Supreme Court Justices Blur Lines With Political Speeches. Hellman also commented to the ABA Journal in PAC ad supports law professor's nomination to 3rd Circuit seat, and he was quoted by Politico in Trump signals Arpaio pardon coming.

Gerald S. Dickinson was quoted by BBC News in 6 things that could topple Donald Trump's border wall.

Paul Finkelman was quoted in the The Washington Free Beacon in “Review: 'Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty' by John Boles.” Finkelman also was quoted by New York Magazine in “Republicans Confuse the Electoral College With ‘the American People" and in Dissident Voice in The Duplicitous U.S. Constitution: How an autocratic legal document became a sacred and incontestable scroll.

Sheila Vélez Martínez was quoted by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in “Unsettled In America: Pittsburgh's Latino community is small, diverse, growing — and anxious” and in the TribLive in DACA offers no clear-cut road map to U.S. citizenship.

Deborah Brake was quoted in TribLive in Subra Suresh heads to Singapore, Harvard eyes banning frats & Pitt professor to speak before DeVos: 5 things to know today and by Inside Higher Ed in What’s Next on Title IX.

Chaz Arnett commented to PublicSource in From school to jail: How hundreds of kids get arrested in Pittsburgh schools every year.

Michael Madison spoke to Eater in “Superior Motors Was Supposed to Revive This Pennsylvania Town. So What Happened?”

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