Technology
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Up to the Courts: Managing Forensic Testimony with Limited Scientific Validity
by Pat Skene
Vol. 102 No. 1 (2018) | Forensic FailU.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York tells the story of a firearms and toolmark examiner who appeared before him in 2008, proposing to […]
Book Review
Finding Humanity in the Great Power Competition for Artificial Intelligence
Vol. 103 No. 3 (2019) | Fees, Fines, and BailI recently spoke on artificial intelligence, law, and ethics as a panelist at the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Atlanta. At the end of our discussion, the moderator […]
Briefs
The Cars of the Future are Headed to Your Courtroom
by The National Center for State Courts
Vol. 103 No. 3 (2019) | Fees, Fines, and BailDistracted and intoxicated driving are costly problems. And while emerging technologies aim to help reduce traffic accidents caused by human error, technology may also increase the number of accidents. For […]
A Finer Point
The Public Domain: A Grand Reopening
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasIn 2019, for the first time in 20 years, a trove of creative works published in 1923 entered the U.S. public domain. Why the hiatus? These works were set to […]
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Protecting Electronic Privacy
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasCarpenter v. United States, decided by the Supreme Court in June 2018, is one of the most important decisions applying the Fourth Amendment to the technology of the 21st century.[1] […]
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Overseas Obligations: An Update on Cross-Border Discovery
by Michael M. Baylson and Sandra Jeskie
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasAn article published in the Winter 2016 edition of Judicature provided an overview of case law and approaches for handling cross-border discovery in litigation. Since then, there have been some […]
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10 Things Judges Should Know About AI
by Jeff Ward
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasWith recent and dramatic advances in the capacities of machine learning, we are now beginning to see artificial intelligence (AI) tools come into their own. This matters for our judiciary, not […]
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Assessing Risk: The Use of Risk Assessment in Sentencing
by Brandon Garrett and John Monahan
Vol. 103 No. 2 (2019) | Pay NCAA athletes?Judges are using risk assessment instruments in criminal cases more than ever before. Their role is increasingly prominent at all stages of the criminal justice system, including policing, pretrial detention, […]
Perspective
Why Can’t I Just Review it in Outlook?
by Margaret Wolf and George Socha
Vol. 102 No. 1 (2018) | Forensic FailEmail is pervasive in discovery. But using familiar tools for document review is a bad idea. Here’s why. Even in the smallest cases these days, electronic data — especially email […]
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Crowdsourcing and Data Analytics: The New Settlement Tools
by David Yokum, Christopher Robertson and Bernard Chao
Vol. 102 No. 3 (2018) | Crowdsourcing and Data AnalyticsBy protecting the right to a jury, the state and federal constitutions recognize the fundamental value of having civil and criminal disputes resolved by laypersons. Actual trials, however, are relatively […]