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Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Seattle at Forefront in Adding 'Caste' as a Protected Class, Writes Chicago-Kent Adjunct Professor
Adjunct Professor Christopher Garcia writes in an article that Seattle recently became the first U.S. city to add “caste” to its list of categories protected from discrimination.
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Reuters
Bar Exam Score Shows AI Can Keep Up with 'Human Lawyers,' Says Chicago-Kent Professor
“I heard so many people say, ‘Well, it might get the multiple choice but it will never get the essays,’” Chicago-Kent College of Law Katz said of his efforts giving GPT the bar exam. GPT-4 passed the Uniform Bar Exam, including the essay and performance test.
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Bloomberg Law
Professor Edward Lee Cited in Story About 'Banned Words' in Federal Court
“The term ‘patent troll’ may operate as a moral panic in a way that is detrimental to reasoned analysis and consideration of the root problems related to the issue of abusive patent litigation tactics,” Lee wrote in a law review article. Given the nature of the term and the negative way it has been used in news articles, he concluded that it would be prejudicial in the context of a patent trial.
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FactCheck.org
Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent Debunks SAFE-T Act Myths
Under the SAFE-T Act, people charged with serious crimes such as second-degree murder and kidnapping “can be detained based on a finding of potential dangerousness,” said Harold Krent, professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “To detain, there must be particular facts demonstrating serious risk. Or the individual can be detained because of a risk of flight.”
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WalletHub
Professor Emeritus Henry H. Perritt Analyzes Changes in Labor Force
“Savings accumulated during the COVID lockdown, combined with high COVID-impact payments, made it possible for a substantial part of the workforce, at all income levels, to drop out and maintain lifestyles,” said Henry H. Perritt, professor emeritus at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “The booming economy after the COVID lockdown encouraged workers to think they could demand higher rates of pay if they quit and sought other jobs.”
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Northwest Herald
Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent Pens Editorial on Sheriffs' Refusal to Enforce Weapons Law
To be sure, judges do not have a monopoly on interpretation of the Constitution. Presidents (and governors) have an independent responsibility to construe the Constitution when deciding whether to sign a bill (as Gov. Pritzker did in this case) or grant a pardon. And, the legislature itself must consider the constitutionality of its own action, as the General Assembly did in enacting the ban. But county sheriffs? It’s their job to enforce the law.
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Reuters
After Chicago-Kent Professor's Experiment, Some Law Professors Fear ChatGPT's Rise, While Others See Opportunity
In their Dec. 31 paper on GPT 3.5's performance on the bar exam, Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Daniel Martin Katz and Michigan State University College of Law Adjunct Michael Bommarito found that the program got answers on the Multistate Bar Exam correct half the time, compared to 68% for human test takers.
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LawNext Podcast
Chicago-Kent Professor Daniel Martin Katz Discusses Experiment Giving Bar Exam to AI of GPT-3.5
“Legalese is very complicated obviously for people and it’s been really thorny for machines to work with,” said Chicago-Kent Professor Daniel Martin Katz. “We saw these large language models, of which GPT is an example, beginning to make increasing progress at least with general language, and we thought maybe this will be the one that can cross the Rubicon and really start to do well with legal language.”
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Summarily
Law Professor Harold Krent Analyzes 11th Circuit Opinion on Bathroom Access for Transgender Boy
“We have evolved as a society to understand that discrimination based upon different treatment, based upon sex means more than just biology,” said Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent.
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ABC7 Chicago
Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro Discusses Illinois Supreme Court's Role in SAFE-T Act Case
“They understand that staying a new and important law go from going into effect is significant, and that if that they're going to strike down the law or uphold the law either way that decision needs to be made relatively quickly,” said Professor Carolyn Shapiro, Chicago Kent College of Law.