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Law Schools Are Lagging in AI Instruction, Newly Released MJLST Analysis Indicates

When a person writes software, makes a medical diagnosis, creates art or orders a drone strike, the law resolves many issues that arise. Take the coder, the physician, the artist or the military leader out the picture — as artificial intelligence (AI) is doing and increasingly promises to do — and the law will struggle.

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Professors Hill, Painter & Ponomarenko Take on Key Leadership Roles in ALI Projects

The American Law Institute has, for nearly a century, brought together federal and state judges, prominent lawyers, and law professors to clarify and simplify the law, and secure the better administration of justice. ALI projects include Restatements, primarily addressed to courts, Principles, primarily addressed to legislatures, administrative agencies and private actors, and Codes, intended to be enacted by legislatures. One ALI project was the Model Penal Code, which became the foundation for criminal law in more than half of the United States.

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Associate Dean Joan Howland Receives ABA's Prestigious Kutak Award

Joan S. Howland, associate dean for information and technology and Roger F. Noreen Professor of Law, has been named the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Robert J. Kutak Award. 

The American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and the national Kutak Rock law firm established the Robert J. Kutak Award in 1984. The Kutak award is awarded annually to honor an individual who has made significant contributions to the collaboration of the academy, the bench, and the bar.