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AI Regulation in Health Care: How Washington State Can Conquer the New Territory of AI Regulation
Get PDFThe use of artificial intelligence both generally and in the health care field has exploded over the last decade. AI is now used in the health care field in areas like disease diagnostics, patient engagement, and administrative tasks. In disease diagnostics specifically, AI is being used to make life-altering diagnoses. This technology, however, does not come without its risks. Specifically, inherent bias is deeply rooted in the AI algorithms. This is because humans are inherently bias, and humans are the people creating the AI algorithms. The problem is, however, is that there are no federal regulations to mitigate the risks of the use of AI in disease diagnostics, and there doesn’t seem to be any regulations on the way any time soon. This means people’s diagnoses are subject to a patchwork of state regulations. Washington is attempting to regulate AI in the public sector. While this is an important step forward, it fails to address the use of AI in health care in the private sector. If Washington wants to effectively regulate AI in health care, it needs to extend its regulations into the private sector – which is where the majority of people obtain health care. To sufficiently regulate Ai in health care, Washington must expand its scope and look to other states’ proposed regulation to make sure people’s lives are protected
Dobbs, Right-Wing Revisionism, and Public Outrage: Rodrigo\u27s Late-Night Chronicle
No full textThe Article provides an overview of Critical Race Theory (CRT), examining its origins, core principles, and influence on legal scholarship and social justice movements. It outlines how CRT critiques the pervasive nature of systemic racism in law and society, challenging traditional legal perspectives. The authors discuss key concepts such as interest convergence, intersectionality, and the critique of liberalism while addressing both the contributions and criticisms of CRT. This work aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of CRT\u27s role in analyzing racial inequities and its impact on contemporary legal discourse
New National Study Can Be a Catalyst for Transformational Change in Public Defense and the Criminal Legal System
No full textMisclassification of firearm-related violent crime in criminal legal system records: challenges and opportunities
No full textBackground: Criminal legal system data are one source for measuring some types of firearm-related harms, including those that do not necessarily result in injury or death, but measurement can be hampered by imprecise criminal code statutes. We quantified the degree of misclassification in Washington state criminal codes for measuring firearm-related crime. Findings: In this study of individuals aged 18 years and older who were convicted of a misdemeanor in Washington Superior Courts from 1/1/2015 through 12/31/2019, we compared firearm-related charges as measured with criminal codes and with manual review of probable cause documents, considered the gold standard. The sample included 5,390 criminal cases. Of these, 77 (1.4%) were firearm-related as measured with criminal codes and 437 (8.1%) were firearm-related as measured via manual record review. In the sample overall, the sensitivity of criminal codes was 17.6% (95% CI 14.2-21.5%), and negative predictive value (NPV) was 93.2% (95% CI 92.5-93.9%). Sensitivity and NPV were higher for cases with exclusively non-violent charges. For all cases and for cases with any violent crime charge, firearm-related crimes described in probable cause documents most often involved explicit verbal threats, firearm possession, and pointing a firearm at or touching a firearm to someone; almost 10% of all cases involved shooting/discharging a firearm. For cases with exclusively non-violent charges, the most common firearm-related crime was unlawful possession. Conclusions: Criminal records can be used for large-scale policy-relevant studies of firearm-related harms, but this study suggests Washington state criminal codes substantially undercount firearm-related crime, especially firearm-related violent crime
Brief of Amici Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, TeamChild, and Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Support of Petitioner
Get PDFIn re the Personal Restraint of Keonte Smith, Petitioner
Promoting Corporate Diversity: The Uncertain Role of Institutional Investors
Get PDFTwo developments are having an impact on corporate decisions. One is the increased engagement by institutional intermediaries and a shift in the focus of that engagement from corporate governance to environmental and social issues. The other is a heightened societal awareness of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues, particularly the importance of diversity in corporate leadership. This Article considers the intersection between the two. It describes how institutional investors have focused their attention on increasing diversity in corporate leadership, the potential motivations for that focus, and the impact of that focus, to date. It highlights the tensions that result from relying on institutional intermediaries to promote diversity. Institutional involvement in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, as a general matter, raises a host of questions including the extent to which a fiduciary may appropriately trade off economic and noneconomic considerations in its investment and engagement strategies. Diversity, however, raises distinctive concerns because the justifications for DEI initiatives are multifaceted and extend beyond firm-specific economic considerations to a broad range of societal objectives. This range of objectives creates challenges both in structuring diversity efforts and evaluating their success. While there is little doubt that the societal case for greater diversity in corporate leadership is compelling, to the extent that the rationale for diversity extends beyond demonstrable effects on firm-specific economic value, it is unclear that institutional intermediaries and their agents—those who make engagement and voting decisions on behalf of such institutions—are well-positioned to address those issues in terms of both accountability and institutional competence. This Article highlights the potential costs of existing institutional efforts and concludes by considering the effectiveness of existing tools of corporate governance in addressing those concerns
Session 1a: Innovation in the Delivery of Legal Services and Access to Justice
Get PDFIn session one, Walid Romaya and Tabrez Ebrahim, co-founders of Vikktoria, discuss their company and its contributions to improving access to justice. With a dual focus on achieving a broader access to justice and in providing matchmaking services for legal professionals looking for a larger client base, Vikktoria aims to disrupt the legal services industry through its mobile app. Based in California, Vikktoria has begun to expand to various metro areas around the country and hopes to provide broader access to justice by giving those with little to no legal knowledge an easy way to find a local attorney, book an appointment, and receive counseling on their issue. Vikktoria aims to solve the current mismatch between potential clients and overworked attorneys by redirecting clients to experienced lawyers in smaller firms who have the availability to take on new cases
Session 3: Diversity Enhancing Intellectual Property
Get PDFThe field of intellectual property suffers from a lack of diversity. Women are underrepresented as credited inventors in the United States. Additionally, multi-gender inventor groups are underrepresented compared to all-male and, sometimes, even all-female groups. This representation has changed over time, with changes not always reflecting an increase in female representation. This is particularly true when studying gender-disparity as it exists in the field of computer programming and software patents. While women were well represented in computer programming at field’s inception, this changed after World War II because men lobbied to push women out of the field. Women have since been erased from the history of computer programming and have not been recognized for their contributions to the field