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2024 Symposium - Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology: Navigating the Legal Landscape
In recent years, there has been much conversation about the advent of artificial intelligence and its relationship to the law. Still, many questions remain. What is AI, and what are its legal and ethical implications? How do we regulate AI? How can AI enhance or hinder access to legal services? How does the use (or overuse) of AI and other technologies impact our privacy or other basic rights?
2023 Symposium - Military Justice Reform: The Next Twenty Years
The American military justice system has undergone waves of reform, and the most recent of these took place over the last decade. Spurred by a growing concern over the prevalence of sexual violence in the military, this reform culminated in the removal of commanders' power to exercise prosecutorial discretion over a category of primarily sex-related offenses. With this sea change now past us, it is an appropriate time to ask: “What next?” The topic of this year's symposium, “Military Justice Reform: The Next Twenty Years,” will address that issue. Leading scholars, jurists and practitioners will come together at Villanova Law to discuss the most salient questions surrounding contemporary military justice.
2022 Symposium - The Consensus Rule: A New Approach to Admissibility of Scientific Evidence
Edward Cheng, Hess Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, has initiated a comprehensive proposal for a new federal evidence rule (702A), governing the admissibility of scientific expertise, to replace the Daubert regime (which gave federal judges a gatekeeping role). Building on the substantial body of literature critical of Daubert, the proposed rule would base admissibility decisions on consensus among experts within the relevant scientific communities, rather than relying on judges or jurors.
2021 Symposium - Practical Ethics in Corporate Law: The Science, Instruction and “Real-World” Application
Lawyers are routinely thrusted into ethical dilemmas that rules of professional conduct do not address. Numerous scholars have worked to unpack one simple, yet complicated question: Why do people behave unethically?
2019 Symposium - Gender Equity in Law Schools
Despite the significant demographic change in the gender composition of law faculty during the last 25 years, persistent questions of unequal treatment and unconscious bias continue to hamper the ability of female faculty to achieve full equality in law schools.