JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2021

UN Secretary General Ant ó nio Guterres Monday encouraged members to devise “an ambitious plan for the future to establish restrictions on the use of certain types of autonomous weapons” ahead of the Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). He has called on the CCW to “swiftly advance its work on autonomous weapons that can choose targets and kill people without human interference.” The CCW seeks to restrict the use of certain weapo

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

One might think after the turbulence of the past two years it would be naive to make predictions about the year ahead. As the saying goes ‘forecasting is difficult; particularly when forecasting the future’.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan Monday requested information about Border Patrol’s use of Clearview AI facial recognition technology in Vermont. Clearview AI aims to support law enforcement and government agencies solve crimes “by revealing leads, insights, and relationships.” According to Clearview AI, its web-based intelligence platform “includes the largest known database of 10+ billion facial images sourced from public-only web sources, including news media, mug

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Although artificial intelligence has been the subject of academic research since the 1950s and has been used commercially in some industries for decades, it is…

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul comments on the lack of any real Taliban economic policy and the grim consequences this will have for hunger and poverty in the country in the absence of international assistance. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s name.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Hong Kong Judge Amy Woodcock Monday sentenced activist Jimmy Lai to prison for his role in a vigil commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. The case arose from an annual vigil held on June 4, 2020. Lai, as well as two other activists who are defendants in the case, held the vigil prior to an organized event by a pro-democracy group.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In 2020, the number of persons held in state or federal prisons in the United States declined 15 percent, from 1,430,200 at year-end 2019 to 1,215,800 at year-end 2020, according to statistics released Tuesday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). . The 2020 imprisonment rate of 358 per 100,000 U.S. residents is the lowest seen since 1992, BJS said.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has passed the “baby bar” exam required for would-be California lawyers who opt to learn the law through apprenticeship instead…

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Policymakers need to focus on the systemic conditions aggravated by the pandemic that have fueled the rise in homicides and other types of violent crime in marginalized communities, say violence experts. Arnita Holliman. “We often hear about mass shootings at a school or a workplace, (but) we hear less about when it’s happening in our community, or our neighborhoods, or when it’s young people coming to mourn another young person that was killed and they show up at a vigil and five people a

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Sarcasm, misrepresentations, inflammatory writings and hardball tactics were the most common type of incivility reported by Illinois lawyers surveyed in August and September.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

“What I Got Wrong About Brett Kavanaugh and Abortion: The justice had sounded eager to prevent states from nullifying constitutional rights. Why did he change his mind?” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Law professors seem surprised when Twitter turns on them. This isn’t the first time this has happened. The post Law Professors On Twitter appeared first on Above the Law.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

“The Supreme Court Is Playing Constitutional Calvinball; If liberals try to apply the logic of the Texas abortion ruling to their own favored causes, they might be in for a rude surprise”: Adam Serwer has this essay online at The Atlantic. And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “ The one good thing that could come from Gavin Newsom trolling the Supreme Court: There are worse things than a hypocritical Court.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Criminologists and researchers from Rutgers University report that they’ve created a multifaceted response to violent crime that’s cost-effective, transparent, and sustainable — all by focusing on a place-based approach to violence prevention. . The Rutgers University researchers, Joel Caplan, Leslie Kennedy, and Alejandro Santana detail their groundbreaking research in an article for The Washington Post, writing how their “Risk Terrain Modeling” (RTM) programing focuses on why certain crimes oc

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

“With Roe at Risk, Justices Explore a New Way to Question Precedents; A new study traces a trend at the Supreme Court: looking to what the lawyers had argued in assessing whether to follow a precedent”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in today’s edition of The New York Times.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It is easy to understand that the more extensive and painful your injuries are, the more pain and suffering you are going through and the higher the number that will be added to your overall damages.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

“Conservatives may control the Supreme Court until the 2050s; Overturning Roe v. Wade may just be the beginning, our research suggests”: Professors Charles Cameron and Jonathan P. Kastellec have this essay online at The Washington Post.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

New York City mayor-elect Eric Adams sees the return of beat cops to the city’s streets as one route to rebuilding trust with some communities and intends to target areas where confidence in the cops is low, survey communities about police responses and determine officers’ promotions based on neighborhood feedback, reports the New York Post. While Adams has promised a more transparent NYPD, it is not certain that growing the count of cops on foot posts, or better informing the public about their

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

“What Brett Kavanaugh Didn’t Mention when He Talked About Reversing Roe: Yes, the court has ignored precedent before, but never to take away a constitutional right.” Law professor Kimberly Wehle has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A cyberattack that Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has described as not as crippling as initially feared has impeded the state’s health department from releasing coronavirus case rates for a ninth straight day while department employees remained unable to access their computers or many portions of the agency’s network, reports the Washington Post. Health department spokesman Andy Owen said officials were working to bring network systems back online and restore full reporting capabilities while focusin

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

“Could Ocean City’s topless ordinance head to the Supreme Court? The latest legal battle.” Emily Lytle of The Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times has this report.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A Florida judge can seek punitive damages against a lawyer she accused of threatening to release her nude photos unless she acquiesced to his demands…

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

“Judge’s stock portfolio didn’t taint class rulings: tuna plaintiffs to 9th Circuit.” Alison Frankel of Reuters has this report.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While name recognition still benefits BigLaw in the recruiting process, even the most revered of those firms may have to work a little harder to appear lucrative to junior lawyers, and even more so to partners, who are placing a greater emphasis on diversity, mental health and work-life balance.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

“Clarence Thomas: Be Careful What You Wish For.” Sherry F. Colb has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.

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