University of St. Thomas School of Law on LinkedIn: Large Language Models: AI's Legal Revolution (2024)

Professor Robert Kahn has published, "Critical Race Theory Bans and Canceling Russia: Where are Holmes and Brandeis Now?"Read it on SSRN at https://lnkd.in/g_6_dfps.Abstract:Free speech has fallen on hard times, as shown by critical race theory bans, and the informal censorship of Russian cultural figures, such as opera singer Anna Netrebko, in the wake of the Ukraine War. One can fairly ask: Where are Justice Holmes and Brandeis now? During the 1910s and 1920s, the two justices laid out a vision of free speech that supposedly informs what we do today. But is this the case? If critical race theory is punishable as communism, why did Justice Holmes in Gitlow v. New York accept “proletarian dictatorship” as a possible outcome? If supporters of the Ukraine war view every assertion of Russian culture as support for Putin, how does this square with the care Justice Holmes took to distinguish the defendants in Abrams v. United States as pro-Bolshevik but not pro-German? Returning to the Holmes Brandeis canon will invigorate public life and help reduce cancel culture.#ustlawmn #freedomofspeech #freespeech #firstamendment #criticalracetheory #statutoryinterpretation #communism #ukrainewar

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Professor Rachel Moran spoke with KARE11 news about the verdict in the Feeding Our Future fraud case.https://lnkd.in/gmUpMs28

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Professor Virgil Wiebe has published the research paper, "Needles in Haystacks: Noncitizen Voting Violations in Minnesota."Read it on SSRN at https://lnkd.in/gAUzjci3.From the abstract:Each election cycle, fears that noncitizens are voting surface. Former President Donald Trump and others continue to claim that undocumented immigrants are being allowed into the U.S. to be signed up to vote. Such claims are regularly debunked. This report concludes that fears of noncitizen voting in Minnesota are unjustified.#ustlawmn #immigration #voting #elections #minnesota #noncitizenvoting #legalpermanentresidents #undocumentedimmigrants #automaticvoterregistration #voterregistration #driverslicensesforall #electioncrimes #electionfraud #illegalimmigration

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The School of Law’sReligious Liberty Appellate Clinic, led by ProfessorTom Berg, has filed amicus curiae briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court case disputes the higher fees charged to religious broadcasters versus secular broadcasters. The 9th Circuit case involves the First Amendment religious freedom rights of Native Americans in Arizona whose sacred land is being threatened by mining.Student practitioners in the Religious Liberty Appellate Clinic, Arianna Rwaki '24 and rising 3L Kris Thompson, conducted research and contributed to drafting the briefs.Read more about these cases at https://lnkd.in/gmAWUFb3.#ustlawmn #religiousfreedom #religiousliberty #firstamendment

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Professor Charles Reid has published a new book, "Peacemaking and the Canon Law of the Catholic Church." It is part of the Brill Research Perspectives in Law and Religion book series, which seeks to better understand how the phenomena of law and religion interact.Learn more at https://lnkd.in/g62rrGvW.From the publisher:This volume unites three disparate strands of historical and legal experience. Nearly from its beginning, the Catholic Church has sought to promote peace – among warring parties, and among private litigants. The volume explores three vehicles the Church has used to promote peace: papal diplomacy of international disputes both medieval and contemporary; the arbitration of disputes among litigants; and the use of the tools of reconciliation to bring about rapprochement between ecclesiastical superiors and those subject to their authority. The book concludes with an appendix exploring a wide variety of hypothetical, yet plausible scenarios in which the Church might use its good offices to repair breaches among persons and nations.#ustlawmn #canonlaw #legalhistory #peacemaking #lawandreligion

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Jerry Organ, Bakken Professor of Law and co-director of the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions, was recognized as one of the Top 20 Most Influential People in Legal Education for 2024 by The National Jurist magazine.“Legal education has seen dramatic improvements over the years, and our list of the Most Influential People in Legal Education represents the main people behind those changes,” according to the magazine.Read at https://lnkd.in/gPwNKe48.Professor Organ is a founding faculty member at St. Thomas Law.In 2009, he became associate director of the Holloran Center, a national leader in innovative interdisciplinary research, curriculum development and programs on the topic of professional identity formation, for law students and other disciplines. He became co-director in 2016. Throughout his career, Organ has been an advocate for law student well-being. He also has done extensive research and scholarship directed toward transparency in the financial aspects of the decision to attend law school, addressing scholarship programs for students, as well as analyzing enrollment, attrition and transfer trends, and employment and salary data of graduates. Organ was also named to National Jurist’s Most Influential list in 2012 and 2014.#ustlawmn #legalinnovator #legalinnovation #legaleducation #lawprofessor

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The University of St. Thomas Law Journal's blog features timely articles about current legal issues written by journal members. Check it out at https://lnkd.in/gCBtGGkq.Recent posts include:"Exploring the Link: How Parental Education Influences Employment Outcomes for Law School Graduates" by rising 3L Rebecca Schmit"Is This Land Your Land? Or Is This Land My Land?: The Ongoing Boundary Dispute Between Mille Lacs County and the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe" by recent graduate Megan Miller '24"Do We Know When We See It? The DEFIANCE Act and the Use of AI to Generate Deepfake Images" by rising 3L Julia Abreu Siufi#ustlawmn #lawjournal #legaleducation

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Congratulations to recent graduate Will Schlicht whose article, "Today’s Top Story…Golf? From Monopolization to Sportswashing, How the PGA Tour and LIV Golf Have Flipped the Sport on its Head," was selected among the top 10 papers in the 2024 Sports Lawyers Association Law Student Writing Competition."Professional golf has been in the headlines for the past two years with the emergence of the Saudi Arabian backed LIV Golf League," Schlicht said. "This has been an unprecedented time for the sport and last summer the PGA Tour announced a merger with LIV Golf’s owner, the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. Allegations of anti-trust have surfaced and the United States government is investigating this merger."Further, LIV Golf has cast a light on the abundance of sports washing from corrupt governments around the globe, where they invest heavily into sports, trying to take the rest of the world’s focus off of their human rights violations. This is a hot topic in the world of sports and the legal ramifications of the situation are quite interesting."Schlicht's paper was selected by the competition's judges from entries from across the country and will be published on The Sports Lawyers Journal's blog later this summer. He also received a $1,000 prize.Congrats, Will!#ustlawmn #lawstudent #legalwriting #writingcompetition #lawschool #LIVgolf #pgatour #pgagolf #sportswashing #antitrustlaw #sportslaw #sportslawyer

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Professor Rachel Moran, an expert in police accountability, recently spoke with Colorado Public Radio for its story about a 2020 Colorado law that made it possible to decertify police officers who are dishonest while writing or testifying in any of three spaces: a police report, an internal affairs investigation or under oath.https://lnkd.in/gBk_siZw#ustlawmn #policeaccountability #policereform

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