Sarah B. Lawsky (Northwestern; Google Scholar), Tax Law and Flexible Formalizations, 91 U. Chi. L. Rev. Online 1 (2024): Changing technologies render tax law’s intricacy
legible in new ways. Advances in large language models, natural language processing, and programming languages designed for the domain of tax law make formalizations [...]
Continuing our round-up of the prizes and award announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History, we turn now to the election of several Honorary Fellows.
As the ASLH website explains, [...]
Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of The Law of Security and Title-Based Financing edited by Louise Gullifer , Michael Bridge, and Eva Lomnicka. Personal
property security is an important subject in commercial practice as it is the key to much of the law of banking and sale. [...]
Last Thursday I moderated a webinar titled "German FRAND Cases: the EC's Amicus Brief and Other Developments." The panelists included Peter Picht and Erik Habich, who along
with me edited the recently-published volume "FRAND: German Case Law and Other Developments (Edward Elgar 2024) (see previous discussion on this blog here and here); [...]
(coauthored by Harry Surden) There is probably no single definition of artificial intelligence that most scholars would agree to. However, one practically useful definition
of AI is "using computers to solve problems, make predictions, answer questions, generate creative output, or make automated decisions or actions, on tasks that when [...]
Electoral Observation Missions (EOM) are vital to democracies worldwide. They extend social oversight beyond national borders to monitor and uphold democratic standards. The
case of Venezuela demonstrates their crucial importance: In the last presidential elections, the work of EOMs was able to confirm irregularities, which today keeps [...]
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Nach langer taktischer Verzögerung hatte das FDP-geführte Bundesjustizministerium (BMJ) den Gesetzesentwurf zur Verlängerung der Mietpreisbremse Mitte Oktober endlich auf
den Weg gebracht. Kurz darauf platzte die Regierungskoalition. Das Schicksal des Gesetzesentwurfs ist seitdem offen. [...]
Abstract: In-person papers: Online participation: The Conference will be held in plenary style so there will be a limited number of spaces, however the conference will
be open to attendance by all. We may have a second call for online participation in the new year. [...]
In a guest post, Professor Satvinder Juss[1] looks at a recent Australian case on the right of observant Sikhs to carry a kirpan. Professor Satvinder Juss Western thinking
about objects in the physical world is rooted in the concept of essences. Ironically, a Sikh kirpan, viewed from this perspective, deprives it of its essential attributes. [...]
