Case Western Reserve Law webinars draw national attendance

July 30, 2021

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Undeterred by the pandemic, the Law School hosted 39 events online in the past year. Most events had 200-300 attendees, about three times the audience in-person events attracted in the past. The total attendance for the events from fall 2020 through spring 2021 was 7,237.

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CSU Cleveland-Marshall Law Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection professor Brian Ray helps draft state privacy bill

July 30, 2021

CSU CLEVELAND-MARSHALL COLLEGE OF LAW — CSU Cleveland-Marshall College of Law’s Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection Advisory Board member and CyberOhio Chair Kirk Herath led a small group of experts, including Center Director Professor Brian Ray and two other Center Board members, Tim Opsitnick, and Spence Witten, in drafting Ohio’s landmark privacy bill that was announced at

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Fordham Law Pre-Law and Summer Institutes combined and offered online

July 30, 2021

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On July 6, Fordham Law School launched this year’s annual Pre-Law and Summer Institutes. These programs are offered online, and both cohorts are combined for the first time.

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Penn State Dickinson Law professor Sara Gerke co-authors article in Science on artificial intelligence in healthcare

July 29, 2021

PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — Professor Sara Gerke co-authors a new piece in Science on the drawbacks of explainable artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in health care. Her co-authors include scholars from Harvard Law School, INSEAD, and the University of Toronto.

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William & Mary Law faculty self-publishes inexpensive and reader-friendly casebooks

July 29, 2021

WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — Professors Jeffrey Bellin, Adam Gershowitz and Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec of William & Mary Law School know that traditional casebooks—the backbone of legal education—are not only huge, dense, note-ridden, and extremely expensive, but they can be backbreaking for students with tight budgets and hours and hours of reading to get

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Penn Law student Amani Carter examines anti-Black bias in artificial intelligence

June 28, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Amani Carter L’22 in the Law School’s AI and Bias Lab, taught by Senior Adjunct Professor of Global Leadership Rangita de Silva de Alwis, has developed a new study on Unmasking Coded Bias.

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UC Irvine Law professor Joshua Blank conducts study on use of automated legal guidance by the federal government

June 15, 2021

UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Joshua Blank, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Strategic Initiatives at UCI Law, has been selected to conduct a study of U.S. federal government agencies’ use of automated tools — such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and artificial intelligence — to explain the law to the public.

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College and graduate students push back on use of artificial intelligence for online exams

June 15, 2021

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Online exam proctoring company ProctorU announced earlier this week that it will no longer send artificial intelligence-generated reports of potential student misconduct to institutions without ProctorU staff members first reviewing the footage — a development raising more questions than it answers.

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Study looks at comfort with technology and online classes among law faculty

June 8, 2021

LAW 360 — A new study of law school faculty across the United States found that the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how these educators see their responsibilities and continues to shape legal education’s future.

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Tulane Law launches online graduate programs in energy and environmental law

May 27, 2021

ENVIRONMENT + LAW — Tulane University Law School is launching two new graduate degree programs to help today’s professionals better navigate the complex laws that are a part of their everyday life: MJ in Energy Law and MJ in Environmental Law.

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