In the year 2000—the early days of e-discovery—a case with 300 gigabytes of data was considered huge. Today? That’s just another standard e-discovery project. And while it’s true that multi-terabyte- and petabyte-sized matters can be a strain because of their size, most of today’s real...
California researchers started with a question: Can algorithms that predict earthquake aftershocks be used to forecast crime? The answer led to advances in predictive policing, a futuristic approach that uses data analysis and artificial intelligence to interrupt crimes before they are committed. Predictive policing has...
When, if ever, should courts bar the federal government from enforcing a law against anyone, not just against the plaintiffs in the case before them? Courts have issued these types of orders — often referred to as “nationwide injunctions” — with increasing frequency over the...
The bail reform movement has found an alternative to cash bail: Artificial intelligence algorithms that can scour through large sets of courthouse data to search for associations and predict which people are most likely to flee or commit another crime, the Associated Press reports. Experts...
Charlotte Hughes and her siblings recall a wonderful childhood in Rayleigh, England. Their mother Claire worked from home making realistic dolls, so she could also be a stay-at-home mom and spend time with her children. But when Charlotte was just 20 years old, the family...
Trade-offs are inescapable: the separation of powers encourages informational free riders and can make good policies harder to achieve....
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced two passengers on separate occasions from a Carnival cruise ship on Tuesday, January 30, 2018 according to a Coast Guard website. The first medevac from the Carnival Pride ship involved a 46 year-old passenger who the shipboard medical team suspected had...
Last year, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) set a goal to develop up-to-date recommendations for how to treat pleural mesothelioma. To accomplish this, ASCO gathered together a panel of 14 experts from various medical specialties. The expert panel reviewed 222 research studies to see...
Have changes in the style and manner of presidential rhetoric in the 20th century served us well?...
Against the tense backdrop of police shootings of unarmed civilians, a research paper has proposed an alternative approach to evaluating encounters between police and civilians that turn deadly. The University of Pennsylvania Law School paper, published last month in the Villanova Law Review, argues that Root...