For two decades, Wisconsin courts have followed the approach to statutory interpretation established in State ex rel. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County, 2004 WI 58, 271 Wis. 2d 633, 681 N.W.2d 110. As …
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A Practical Guide on AI Prompting for Legal Professionals
The November issue of Wisconsin Lawyer features a practical guide I wrote on using generative AI effectively in legal practice. “AI Prompting for Legal Professionals: The Art of Asking the Right Question” offers a framework …
Does Fee Denial Signal New Expectations for Detecting Opposing Counsel’s AI Hallucinations?
Lawyers who fail to verify AI-generated content do so at their own peril – and now, potentially at the peril of fee awards. A California Court of Appeals decision adds a new wrinkle to the …
The Bluebook’s New AI Citation Rule Misses the Mark
In case you missed it, the latest edition of the Bluebook has introduced a new rule on citing AI-generated content. While I agree that a rule addressing GenAI was needed, unfortunately, Rule 18.3’s approach misses …
UW Law School Explores GenAI’s Role in Corporate Compliance
The Wisconsin Compliance Initiative will host “A New Era of Corporate Compliance: Opportunities, Risks, and Ethical Dimensions of Generative AI and Emerging Technologies” on Wednesday, September 17, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. The program is …
The Father of Modern American Legal History Returns: Enhanced Access to the J. Willard Hurst Collection
The University of Wisconsin Law Library is pleased to announce that the J. Willard Hurst Collection is once again available through the UW Law School Digital Repository. The collection was temporarily offline while we enhanced …
A Historic Gift: 1865 Chicago Tribune Documents Lincoln’s Final Journey
The University of Wisconsin Law Library recently received a remarkable historical gift: an original April 22, 1865 Chicago Tribune newspaper documenting President Lincoln’s funeral train journey. The framed newspaper was generously donated by Tonia Neustifter, …
Evaluating AI-Generated Podcasts of Scholarly Works: Academia.edu v. NotebookLM
This morning, received an email from Academia.edu informing me that it had created an AI-generated podcast about an article that I authored a few years ago entitled, Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: Strategies for Improving …
Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Antitrust Market Evolution; Multiracial, Interclass Democracy; Race and Elections; and Corporate Misconduct Enforcement
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series vis SSRN. Decoding the Meaning of “Any Section of the Country”: The Pabst-Blatz Saga by Peter Carstensen, University …
Sometimes You Need the Small Hammer: Using Google’s NotebookLM for Document Analysis
People often think of generative AI tools as systems that query vast universes of training data – like asking ChatGPT to draw from its broad knowledge base trained on billions of web pages, books, and …