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Student Life E-Newsletter January 22, 2024
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Defending Critical Race Theory
Get PDFRecent attacks on Critical Race Theory (CRT) have caused wide ranging discussions about CRT in a diverse number of disciplines, throughout all grade levels, and around the world in media. While CRT adherents have long wished for more engagement with CRT, the recent firestorm of attacks has been surprising at best, and horribly worrisome and frightening at worst. Efforts to ban CRT in schools, while likely not having much effect given the improbability that CRT is taught in any K-12 schools, have politicized CRT in new ways (though like all education, it was always political). Moreover, this engagement is clearly not in ways that many of us writing in or about this tradition imagined, yet the increasing politicization of CRT has raised interest in the theory well beyond the colleges, universities, and graduate and professional schools where it was, at best, occasionally taught. Arguably, conservatives created a debate where there is none and was none. Or, as Donald Earl Collins puts it, this is a discussion not about CRT, but rather about “critical race fact.”
This Article sets out to defend CRT from the criticisms levied by conservative and Republican politicians in the United States as well as other pundits and pontificators. These criticisms have always existed, but they have now been taken up in popular media in a confusing menagerie of political fervor. Of course, the criticisms of CRT are almost always based on a misunderstanding of the idea. Each Part takes up a different criticism and presents evidence that the criticism is simply not true by using both what critical race theorists have written, as well as what others who have experience teaching it in the United States’ schools, colleges, and universities have claimed. It is possible, one supposes, that the country’s alleged critical-race-teaching kindergarten teachers are covertly inserting CRT into our five-year-olds’ lessons on colors, but this seems unlikely
2024 State of the Law School
Get PDFDean Anthony E. Varona and Professors Steven Bender, Deirdre Bowen, Margaret Chon, and Jeffrey Minneti recap the significant achievements of Seattle University School of Law over the past year and provide important information on what’s to come.
Note: The message was recorded before National Jurist’s preLaw magazine published its latest issue in which Seattle U Law was awarded an A+ in Racial Justice and ranked #4 nationwide among all law schools
Is India the New China in U.S. Foreign Policy?
No full textThe University of Washington International Law Journal’s timely symposium explores the strains in the U.S.-China political and economic relationship. As China and the United States become estranged, or “decoupled,” this essay explores the United States’ relationship with India in light of this trend. The U.S.-India foreign relations are stronger today than they have been in India’s 75-year history as an independent nation. To understand why this is the case, we have to examine both the U.S. and Indian foreign policy perspectives. The United States’ interest in India has grown in part due to the United States’ own changes in domestic policy and motivations to counter China. It is only in the more recently that India has been open to a stronger partnership with the United States due largely to political and economic changes in the country
Session 2: The Case for Infringement
Get PDFThis session provides an in-depth examination of the evolving legal landscape surrounding generative AI and its interaction with copyright laws. Joseph Saveri opens with a discussion on numerous lawsuits filed since 2022, involving various works used by generative AI companies without authorization. Ian Crosby highlights a significant case where the New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, focusing on whether using copyrighted material to train AI models constitutes fair use and the impact of AI-generated narrative search results on journalistic revenue. Steve Cohen discusses a class action lawsuit involving voiceover actors whose recordings were misused by AI, emphasizing the need for fair compensation in the voiceover industry. The session also touches on the broader ethical and economic implications of AI, with suggestions for new legal frameworks to protect content creators and a proposed economic model to compensate for AI-generated derivative works, ensuring that the creation and consumption of AI content are balanced and fair
Session Introduction: Welcome and Overview of Generative AI Technology
Get PDFIn the introduction of the SITIE2024 Symposium, “Welcome and Overview of Generative AI Technology,” esteemed presenter LeighAnne Thompson, Associate Director for Digital Innovation at Seattle University’s Law Library, provided an introduction to GenAI. Thompson’s introduction to GenAI included the different uses these platforms have, an overview of how GenAI and large language models (LLMs) work, guidance on how to use these platforms, a brief discussion of the potential uses in law, and the benefits and risks associated with GenAI
Student Life E-Newsletter September 03, 2024
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The Bankruptcy Roadmap for Dealing with Valuable Data Assets
No full textIn the market for valuable data assets, it seems that participants have cracked the code for how to monetize data from bankrupt companies. In fact, they have created a playbook that allows them to largely avoid regulatory and judicial scrutiny while also reducing attention generally to these valuable assets. To ensure that bankruptcy law and practice continues to advance the important goals of fairness and efficiency, it is time for courts to demand full and robust disclosure of data assets. With meaningful disclosure, bankruptcy courts will be able to provide a forum for determining—as efficiently as possible—the value of these assets and the best opportunities that presently exist for monetizing them in ways that do not run afoul of evolving privacy laws, best practices, and consumer expectations
The Illegal Trade of Marine Wildlife: A Review of Consequences and Strategies to Combat the Trade
Get PDFAn enduring challenge in assessing the risk of extinction for marine animals lies in our need to consume them. Many nations, including the United States, invest substantial resources in supporting fishery businesses to locate, harvest, and market ocean wildlife, with comparatively small allocations for their protection. Despite the existence of numerous state, national, and international laws dictating how and when animals can be harvested, achieving sustainable catch levels remains elusive. Especially when adding in the constant battle against organized crime groups, combatting the marine wildlife trade almost seems impractical. This comment analyzes and argues for a more comprehensive approach to legal doctrine both nationally and internationally, suggesting alternative perspectives to protect marine biodiversity