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Roger Williams University School Of Law Alumni Association 2023 Holiday Reception, Roger Williams University School Of Law Nov 2023

Roger Williams University School Of Law Alumni Association 2023 Holiday Reception, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.


Roger Williams University School Of Law Alumni Association 2023 Holiday Reception, Roger Williams University School Of Law Nov 2023

Roger Williams University School Of Law Alumni Association 2023 Holiday Reception, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.


Vol. 65, No. 13 (November 20, 2023) Nov 2023

Vol. 65, No. 13 (November 20, 2023)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.


The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Large Language Models In Zero-Shot Semantic Annotation Of Legal Texts, Jaromir Savelka, Kevin D. Ashley Nov 2023

The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Large Language Models In Zero-Shot Semantic Annotation Of Legal Texts, Jaromir Savelka, Kevin D. Ashley

Articles

The emergence of ChatGPT has sensitized the general public, including the legal profession, to large language models' (LLMs) potential uses (e.g., document drafting, question answering, and summarization). Although recent studies have shown how well the technology performs in diverse semantic annotation tasks focused on legal texts, an influx of newer, more capable (GPT-4) or cost-effective (GPT-3.5-turbo) models requires another analysis. This paper addresses recent developments in the ability of LLMs to semantically annotate legal texts in zero-shot learning settings. Given the transition to mature generative AI systems, we examine the performance of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5-turbo(-16k), comparing it to the previous …


Vol. 65, No. 12 (November 13, 2023) Nov 2023

Vol. 65, No. 12 (November 13, 2023)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.


Vol. 65, No. 11 (November 6, 2023) Nov 2023

Vol. 65, No. 11 (November 6, 2023)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.


2023 Women In Robes, Roger Williams University School Of Law Nov 2023

2023 Women In Robes, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.


Symposium On Transformative Gender Law: A Roger Williams Law Review Event 11-3-2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law Nov 2023

Symposium On Transformative Gender Law: A Roger Williams Law Review Event 11-3-2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.


7th Annual Stonewall Lecture Series - The Battle For Pride: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow 2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law Nov 2023

7th Annual Stonewall Lecture Series - The Battle For Pride: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow 2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.


Learning To Do Good While Doing Well 11-2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law Nov 2023

Learning To Do Good While Doing Well 11-2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.


Vol. 65, No. 10 (October 30, 2023) Oct 2023

Vol. 65, No. 10 (October 30, 2023)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.


Vol. 65, No. 09 (October 23, 2023) Oct 2023

Vol. 65, No. 09 (October 23, 2023)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.


Law School News: A Courtroom Drama Worth Watching 10-22-2023, Suzi Morales Oct 2023

Law School News: A Courtroom Drama Worth Watching 10-22-2023, Suzi Morales

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.


Vol. 65, No. 08 (October 16, 2023) Oct 2023

Vol. 65, No. 08 (October 16, 2023)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.


Law School News: Rake To Plate: Rwu Law Students Dive Into The Clamming Industry 10-4-2023, Grace Boland Oct 2023

Law School News: Rake To Plate: Rwu Law Students Dive Into The Clamming Industry 10-4-2023, Grace Boland

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.


Vol. 65, No. 07 (October 2, 2023) Oct 2023

Vol. 65, No. 07 (October 2, 2023)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.


Law Library Blog (October 2023): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law Oct 2023

Law Library Blog (October 2023): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

No abstract provided.


The Ethical Risk Of Experience, Barbara Glesner Fines Oct 2023

The Ethical Risk Of Experience, Barbara Glesner Fines

Faculty Works

Practice may make perfect, but in law practice, experience and specialization can actually increase some types of errors - leading to an increased risk of malpractice claims, disciplinary complaints, or client dissatisfaction. This article explores the question of why this may be so. The article first examines the phenomenon of increased malpractice and disciplinary risks for family law attorneys in general and experienced attorneys in par­ticular. The central question this article examines is this, "Why might highly experienced and specialized family law attorneys find themselves facing the most severe of disciplinary sanctions or malpractice judgments?" The answers point to some …


Island Musings: A Selective Bibliography Of Early Key West, Robin Schard Oct 2023

Island Musings: A Selective Bibliography Of Early Key West, Robin Schard

Articles

This bibliography identifes and describes 75 works that focus on Key West during its first 50 years (1821-71) as a U.S. possession. General, legal, and popular culture materials are included.


Public Defenders As Gatekeepers Of Freedom, Alma Magaña Oct 2023

Public Defenders As Gatekeepers Of Freedom, Alma Magaña

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Nearly half a million people are currently held in pretrial detention across the United States. Legal scholarship has explored many of the actors and factors contributing to the deprivation of freedom of those presumed innocent. And while the scholarship in these areas is rich, it has primarily focused on certain system actors—including judges, prosecutors, and profit-seeking sheriffs—structural concerns, such as the role race plays in who is being held in pretrial detention, or critiques of the failed promise of algorithms to deliver on bias-free bail determinations. But relatively little scholarship exists about the contributions of public defenders to this deprivation. …


Challenges And Rewards Of Educating First Generation Law Students, Lori D. Johnson Oct 2023

Challenges And Rewards Of Educating First Generation Law Students, Lori D. Johnson

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Generative Ai And The Future Of Legal Education, Joseph Regalia Oct 2023

Generative Ai And The Future Of Legal Education, Joseph Regalia

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Progressive Prosecution Or Zealous Public Defense? The Choice For Law Students Concerned About Our Flawed Criminal Legal System, Abbe Smith Oct 2023

Progressive Prosecution Or Zealous Public Defense? The Choice For Law Students Concerned About Our Flawed Criminal Legal System, Abbe Smith

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This Article addresses a question asked by many law students concerned about our flawed criminal legal system: should they become a prosecutor in an office run by a progressive prosecutor, or a public defender in an office devoted to zealous, client-centered (or holistic) defense? The Article starts with an anecdote about Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s road show to recruit law students and young lawyers, and then proceeds as follows: First, this Article makes the case for progressive prosecution; then, it makes the case for zealous indigent defense; then, it identifies the obstacles and challenges for both kinds of lawyers …


Legalbench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark For Measuring Legal Reasoning In Large Language Models, Neel Guha, Julian Nyarko, Daniel E. Ho, Christopher Ré, Adam Chilton, Aditya Narayana, Alex Chohlas-Wood, Austin Peters, Brandon Waldon, Daniel Rockmore, Diego A. Zambrano, Dmitry Talisman, Enam Hoque, Faiz Surani, Frank Fagan, Galit Sarfaty, Gregory M. Dickinson, Haggai Porat, Jason Hegland, Jessica Wu, Joe Nudell, Joel Niklaus, John Nay, Jonathan H. Choi, Kevin Tobia, Margaret Hagan, Megan Ma, Michael A. Livermore, Nikon Rasumov-Rahe, Nils Holzenberger, Noam Kolt, Peter Henderson, Sean Rehaag, Sharad Goel, Shang Gao, Spencer Williams, Sunny Gandhi, Tom Zur, Varun Iyer, Zehua Li Sep 2023

Legalbench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark For Measuring Legal Reasoning In Large Language Models, Neel Guha, Julian Nyarko, Daniel E. Ho, Christopher Ré, Adam Chilton, Aditya Narayana, Alex Chohlas-Wood, Austin Peters, Brandon Waldon, Daniel Rockmore, Diego A. Zambrano, Dmitry Talisman, Enam Hoque, Faiz Surani, Frank Fagan, Galit Sarfaty, Gregory M. Dickinson, Haggai Porat, Jason Hegland, Jessica Wu, Joe Nudell, Joel Niklaus, John Nay, Jonathan H. Choi, Kevin Tobia, Margaret Hagan, Megan Ma, Michael A. Livermore, Nikon Rasumov-Rahe, Nils Holzenberger, Noam Kolt, Peter Henderson, Sean Rehaag, Sharad Goel, Shang Gao, Spencer Williams, Sunny Gandhi, Tom Zur, Varun Iyer, Zehua Li

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The advent of large language models (LLMs) and their adoption by the legal community has given rise to the question: what types of legal reasoning can LLMs perform? To enable greater study of this question, we present LegalBench: a collaboratively constructed legal reasoning benchmark consisting of 162 tasks covering six different types of legal reasoning. LegalBench was built through an interdisciplinary process, in which we collected tasks designed and hand-crafted by legal professionals. Because these subject matter experts took a leading role in construction, tasks either measure legal reasoning capabilities that are practically useful, or measure reasoning skills that lawyers …


Vol. 65, No. 06 (September 25, 2023) Sep 2023

Vol. 65, No. 06 (September 25, 2023)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.


Four Pathbreaking Women Judges To Participate In Iu Conference And Public Discussion Monday, Sept. 25, James Owsley Boyd Sep 2023

Four Pathbreaking Women Judges To Participate In Iu Conference And Public Discussion Monday, Sept. 25, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

Four distinguished women judges from the Middle East and North Africa—including the first female judge in Jordanian history—will visit the Indiana University Bloomington campus Sept. 25-26 for a conference titled “Women Judges in Dialogue,” where they will discuss their own experience as women in the judiciary as well as issues surrounding constitutional adjudication in the region. They will be joined by faculty from the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and the Maurer School of Law.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Middle East (CSME) at HLS and the Center for Constitutional Democracy (CCD) …


A Fireside Chat With A Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Roger Williams University School Of Law Sep 2023

A Fireside Chat With A Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.


Vol. 65, No. 05 (September 18, 2023) Sep 2023

Vol. 65, No. 05 (September 18, 2023)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.


Vol. 65, No. 04 (September 11, 2023) Sep 2023

Vol. 65, No. 04 (September 11, 2023)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.


Thurgood Marshall Memorial Lecture 9-13-2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law Sep 2023

Thurgood Marshall Memorial Lecture 9-13-2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.