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The Law School recently joined the Weil Legal Innovators Program, a trailblazing multi-stakeholder public service initiative established five years ago by international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
A decade ago, Anthony Casey began researching how artificial intelligence could change the law. At the time, AI technology was nascent but promising, with companies like Google doling out millions of dollars to develop the technology. Researchers predicted that AI would soon enable machines to learn vast swaths of information, then perform human-like tasks.
As AI technologies continue to evolve, so too does the research of many of our faculty. Other Law School faculty members who have engaged in significant AI-related research include the following.
Sandra Frantzen, ’99, didn’t set out to become a lawyer. Her college degrees were in chemistry and environmental science; she had her eyes set on medical school.
William Baude, Harry Kalven Jr. Professor of Law, made international headlines earlier this year when a law review article he coauthored provided a basis for Colorado to argue in Trump v. Anderson that former President Donald Trump be removed from the 2024 presidential ballot.
Faculty in the News
Americans love inexpensive meat. Many think it would be a terrible fate to be deprived of cheap diner bacon and drive-through burgers. For over a century the meat industry has catered to and cultivated this taste, mass-producing beef, pork, and chicken in ways that permit efficiencies of scale—but necessitate inhumane treatment of the animals. These creatures are warehoused like objects and herded along fear-ridden assembly lines to certain death.
President Biden has made several promises on clemency. He broke one of those promises by pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, who he claimed had been unjustly charged.
Yoon Suk-yeol’s latest political gambit undoubtedly did not unfold as he expected. After abruptly declaring martial law on December 3, South Korea’s scandal-plagued president was forced to lift the order within hours in the face of public protests and legislative opposition. He now faces an impeachment motion filed by the opposition Democratic Party, which has condemned his “insurrectionary behavior.”
