University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: February 2025

Study Committee on the Regulation of AI in Wisconsin Issues Recommendations

Last week, the Wisconsin Legislative Council’s Study Committee on the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence issued a report outlining seven recommendations for legislation regarding the use and development of AI. Overall, I think the committee’s recommendations reflect a measured approach to AI regulation, but I also have some concerns. Recommendation: Instead of Regulating AI, Focus on …

New Legal Scholar Ranking Offers Insight on What Makes Legal Scholarship Impactful

A new study by Rob Willey and Melanie Knapp from George Mason University Law Library ranks The Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2024. The study continues their methodology that counts citations to law journal articles in HeinOnline, limiting to articles written in a recent, three-year period of time (2018-2020). By focusing on more recent scholarship, …

Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Progressive Judiciary, Google Bottleneck Monopoly, Loper Bright, Testing MPRE Comments, Part-Time Rural Prosecutors, and State Legislative Vetoes

Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series vis SSRN. A Progressive Judiciary? Judicial Review and National Politics from Reconstruction to the Present by Joshua Braver, University of Wisconsin Law School and  Gregory Elinson, Northern Illinois University – College of Law Remedying the Google Dual …