Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology
Symposia
The Right to Share: Affording Americans Meaningful Control Over Their Data
Americans today face unprecedented opportunities to leverage their personal data for health, education, and economic benefit; yet state and federal privacy laws increasingly restrict their ability to do so. This...
From Data to Decisions: Why AI Inferences Should Count as ‘Effects’ Under the Fourth Amendment
This Article argues that AI-driven microtargeting, enabled by large-scale data brokerage and increasingly acquired by government actors, creates a dual constitutional problem. First, it undermines Fourth Amendment protections through what...
Articles
Rest My Case: Sleep Science Should Inform J.D. Program Structures and Licensure Examinations to Enhance Performance, Equity and Well-Being
This Article critically examines the legal profession’s longstanding marginalization of sleep and circadian biology and argues that temporal structural norms embedded in legal education and licensure are at odds with established scientific evidence. Drawing...
Private Standards as Liability Shields: A Pro-Innovation Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Approach for States
States face a dilemma. The federal government is not regulating artificial intelligence (AI), and is threatening states that regulate the technology with preemption and funding restrictions. Moreover, piecemeal state regulation...
Creative Destruction for the Patent System? Impact Of Generative AI
AI raises the provocative possibility that patents could one day become obsolete. AI has the ability both to generate inventions and to simulate the perspective of a person having ordinary...