Law School Survey of Student Engagement reports law students are comfortable and satisfied with online learning
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Law school students are increasingly both satisfied and comfortable with online learning, according to the 2022 Law School Survey of Student Engagement.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO SCHOOL OF LAW — Imagine your identity gets stolen or misconfigured online, resulting in serious personal damages. The cause was an error rooted in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, equipment with no face or name. So, who’s to blame? Is it the company that hosts the technology, the state who commissioned it, the…
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USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — Does technology build and support community or weaken and undermine it? USC Gould School of Law Visiting Assistant Professor Ángel Díaz poses such questions in his scholarship focusing on how social media and other technology intersect with racial discrimination.
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THE NATIONAL LAW REVIEW — What it takes to manage a successful law firm has shifted. A firm’s accolades and long-standing tradition are now just a drop in the bucket for prospective clients.
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF LAW — We Robot is an interdisciplinary conference that brings together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss legal and policy questions relating to robots. Since its inception in 2012, the conference has fostered dynamic conversations regarding robot theory, design, and development.
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NPR — The remote-proctored exam that colleges began using widely during the pandemic saw a first big legal test of its own — one that concluded in a ruling applauded by digital privacy advocates. A federal judge this week sided with a student at Cleveland State University in Ohio, who alleged that a room scan taken before…
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CISON PR NEWSWIRE — BYU Law today announced the addition of the Congressional Record Corpus to its Law and Corpus Linguistics suite of corpora. A pioneering technology tool for the legal community, the Law and Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform enables users to analyze large collections of historical texts called “corpora” for better understanding of context and meaning…
Read More about BYU Law releases searchable US Congressional record databaseUC Berkeley Law professor Rebecca Wexley among researchers launching center to advance decentralization technology
UC BERKELEY — UC Berkeley and Imperial College London have won $5 million to create an international, interdisciplinary center aimed at advancing decentralization technology that offers users more control of their data, the Algorand Foundation announced today.
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PENN TODAY — The Access to Justice Tech Fellows Program mobilizes law students across the country to generate pathbreaking ways to increase access to justice for the most vulnerable communities.
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ABA JOURNALS — Lawyers in New York will have to take at least a one-hour cybersecurity course as part of their continuing legal education requirements beginning in July 2023.
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