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  1. Los Angeles Times

    Law Professor Nancy Kim: Biden’s Executive Order on AI Is Ambitious — and Incomplete

    Last month President Biden issued an executive order on artificial intelligence, the government’s most ambitious attempt yet to set ground rules for this technology. The order focuses on establishing best practices and standards for AI models, seeking to constrain Silicon Valley’s propensity to release products before they’ve been fully tested — to “move fast and break things.” But despite the order’s scope — it’s 111 pages and covers a range of issues including industry standards and civil rights — two glaring omissions may undermine its promise.

  2. Christian Science Monitor

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro Explains the Supreme Court’s New Ethics Code

    The general language in the code “does suggest [the justices] consider this [as] aspirational, as opposed to binding,” says Carolyn Shapiro, co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States at the University of Chicago-Kent College of Law. “There’s an extraordinary amount of discretion involved in applying these standards,” she adds. But “I’m not sure it would be possible to write standards that don’t have that as an element.”

  3. Financial Times

    A Champion of Generative AI Innovation, Chicago-Kent’s Daniel Martin Katz Stands Out for Guiding Legal Teams on How to Use the Latest Tools

    When Daniel Katz, a law professor at Illinois Tech’s Chicago-Kent College of Law, set out to challenge the abilities of Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s GPT-4, he knew his team had to choose a task that would capture the attention of lawyers. What could be better than the bar exam? “If I picked a very narrow area of law, people wouldn’t get their head around it,” he says. In March, it emerged that the AI model passed the test, scoring in the 90th percentile.

  4. Bloomberg Law

    Professor Harold Krent Discusses SCOTUS Arguments on Whether Government Should Face Lawsuits When It Fails to Correct False Credit Reports

    “The issue really boils down to, how clear must Congress be in waiving the immunity from a damages action for the federal government?” said Harold Krent, professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law.

  5. Christian Science Monitor

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro Will Be Watching Dynamic Between Supreme Court and 5th Circuit This Term

    “You might say, why does the court have this focus on administrative law (this term)? Or you might say, why is the 5th Circuit issuing these remarkably extreme opinions?” says Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “The 5th Circuit is doing some very extreme things, and the Supreme Court is almost always going to grant” appeals so those decisions can be reviewed.

  6. The Progressive Magazine

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Harold Krent Explains How Things Will Change Now That Illinois Has Ended Cash Bail

    “In each case, the prosecutor needs to persuade the judge that, based on the type of crime alleged, the surrounding circumstances, history of violence or flight, or collateral evidence of vengeance that continued incarceration is appropriate,” according to Harold J. Krent, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “For a murder that was gang related, the prosecutor can argue that the tensions between the gangs may place the arrestee in a situation (if released) in which violence is likely. ... Or, for someone arrested for felony possession of narcotics, the prosecutor may have no reason to predict violence upon release if there was no prior whiff of violence.”

  7. Bloomberg Law

    Professor Harold Krent Breaks Down SCOTUS Case That Could Decide Fate of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

    “Under the 2010 law that created the agency, Congress gave it an open-ended funding mechanism which would actually be drawn from another agency, the Fed,” said Harold Krent, professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “So the argument was (that) this is somewhat of an unusual appropriations decision ... and both sides had a hard time finding some kind of line to draw to distinguish permissible congressional appropriations from impermissible ones.”

  8. WealthManagement.com

    Robinhood Decision Represents ‘Perfect Storm’ Between Aggressive Securities Regulator and State Court That Recognizes the Investor Protection Questions at Stake

    “I think (the ruling) creates not only precedent for the future, but also space for more breathing room and other aggressive and innovative state regulators to follow along a similar sort of path,” said James Tierney, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

  9. The Intercept

    Police Decertification Can't Be Effective Tool for Reform While It's So Difficult, Says Associate Professor Raff Donelson

    “Decertification has to be easier if it’s to work as an independent way to get police reform,” said Raff Donelson, an associate professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, drawing a contrast to criminal prosecutions as an accountability mechanism. We have one set of rules for figuring out whether to take away your freedom,” he said, and “a different set of rules about whether you should do a job.”

  10. Financial Times

    Many Law Firms Remain Skittish About Adopting AI, Says Professor Daniel Martin Katz

    When market pioneer ChatGPT first became available, many prospective users of legal generative AI tech — law firms and in-house legal departments — suffered from “Fomo”, or fear of missing out, according to Dan Katz, a professor at Chicago Kent College of Law, who leads the school’s legal tech centre. But that early enthusiasm has given way to “Fud” — fear, uncertainty and doubt — he says.