Hon James E. Baker: A DPA for the 21st Century
If updated and used to its full effect, the Defense Production Act (DPA) could be leveraged to encourage development and governance of artificial intelligence. And debate about the DPA’s use for AI purposes can serve to shape and condition expectations about the role the law’s authorities should or could play, as well as to identify essential legislative gaps.

Professor Nina Kohn Pens WaPo OpEd on Long-Term Care Reform
During the worst days of the coronavirus pandemic, the conditions in the United States’ nursing homes were horrific. Nursing home residents account for less than half-of-1-percent of the U.S. population but roughly a quarter of the deaths related to covid-19 ...

Professor Lauryn Gouldin: Why Is There Over-Policing for Low-Level Offenses?
Even as the country breathes a small sigh of relief that Derek Chauvin will be held accountable for killing George Floyd, police violence continues to dominate national headlines. One fundamental question arises in many of these cases: why do we police low-level offenses in ways that too often lead to death, serious injury and lasting community trauma? All of us (should) value liberty and, of course, life over these minor harms.
ABA Podcast: 1L Meghan Steenburgh Discusses National Security with Professor William C. Banks
ABA Law Student Podcast host 1L Meg Steenburgh talks with Professor William Banks of Syracuse University about the most critical national security issues facing our nation both at home and abroad, including China tensions, nuclear weapons concerns worldwide, the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, and more.

Hon. James E. Baker: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence—A Policymaker's Introduction
Policymakers contemplating the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence will find, if they have not already, that existing laws leave huge gaps in deciding how (and whether) AI will be developed and used in ethical ways ...

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