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Kevin Ashley publishes Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics: New Tools for Law Practice in the Digital Age with Cambridge University Press
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| 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.
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Doug Branson, The Future of Tech is Female, NYU Press (2018, 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). Matiangai Sirleaf, Ebola Does Not Fall from the Sky: Global Structural Violence and International Responsibility, 51 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. __ (2018).
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Jessie Allen selected to present at Harvard, Yale, Stanford Junior Scholars Forum
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| 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.
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| 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.
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. 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.”
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Criminal (In)Justice podcast with Pitt Law Professor David Harris celebrates 60th episode
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| 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.
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