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Common law has long balanced innovation and accountability. Can it do the same for AI?
The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.
Should social media platforms have the right to decide what speech to allow online? Should the government?
"Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, and Knox the man who buys the beef." Read the story of 19th-century Scotland's corpse dealers.
Neural imaging has shown that the brain has “decided” what we’re going to do before we make a conscious choice — but is this even relevant to free will?
Legally smoking joints in city centers will require alertness and a keen sense of orientation — two things stoners are not known for.
"In witness whereof, the parties hereunto have set their hands to these presents as a deed on the day month and year hereinbefore mentioned."
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
This is the latest study to confirm that the brain does not fully mature until at least the third decade of life.
Even if a balloon flies directly overhead, attempting to shoot it down with a conventional firearm is stupid, ineffective, and dangerous.
This is a perversion of justice.
"Strategic ambiguity" has long been the West's strategy on Taiwan.
How can the law keep up with new genetic technology?
Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.