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Stanford Law School's Dan Ho, Faiz Surani, Mirac Suzgun and co-authors helped author a report, "AI for Scaling Legal Reform: Mapping and Redacting Racial Covenants in Santa Clara County," on how AI can be used as a tool to identify, redact, and develop historical registers of racial ...covenants more effectively.

Read more here: https://stanford.io/3Eg4XS2

Stanford Law School's Michael Romano recently authored an opinion piece, "A Bipartisan Consensus on Criminal-Justice Reform," published by the Wall Street Journal. Romano discusses how he thinks the First Step Act may be a precursor to Trump's second term.

"With ...President Biden’s pardon for his son and President-elect Trump’s contentious pick to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the unruliness of our justice system has been on display in recent weeks," Romano said. "There are, however, several reasons to be optimistic about the future of criminal-justice reform."

Read more here: https://stanford.io/4hi1K33

Stanford CS and CodeX Collaborator Aksh Garg and CodeX Associate Director Dr. Megan Ma recently published their white paper that re-examines and provides perspective on the opportunities and challenges in implementing generative AI solutions within the legal industry. Despite significant funding ...and decreasing LLM costs, widespread adoption of legal AI solutions remains limited.

The paper identifies several persistent challenges hindering adoption in the legal sector including data access and readiness, law firm business model and technical constraints. The paper also highlights barriers in enterprise integration, including market fragmentation, long sales cycles, and the deceptive nature of early pilot programs. Despite these challenges, the paper identifies promising directions for legal AI innovation.

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Sustaining Innovation in Legal AI | Stanford Law School

by Aksh Garg, Stanford CS and CodeX Collaborator and Dr. Megan Ma, Stanford CodeX Associate Director Our white paper re-examines and provides perspect

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Today, the Stanford Constitutional Law Center hosted a live recording of the Divided Argument podcast with co-hosts William Baude, Harry Kalven, Jr. Professor of Law at @uchicagolaw and Dan Epps, Professor of Law at @washulawlife as they broke down some recent developments on the Court’s docket, ...made predictions about what is coming later this term, and took student questions from the audience. They were also joined today by Stanford Law Professor Orin Kerr.

You can listen to their podcast when it drops at dividedargument.com.