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  1. Northwest Herald

    Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent Pens Editorial on Sheriffs' Refusal to Enforce Weapons Law

    To be sure, judges do not have a monopoly on interpretation of the Constitution. Presidents (and governors) have an independent responsibility to construe the Constitution when deciding whether to sign a bill (as Gov. Pritzker did in this case) or grant a pardon. And, the legislature itself must consider the constitutionality of its own action, as the General Assembly did in enacting the ban. But county sheriffs? It’s their job to enforce the law.

  2. Reuters

    After Chicago-Kent Professor's Experiment, Some Law Professors Fear ChatGPT's Rise, While Others See Opportunity

    In their Dec. 31 paper on GPT 3.5's performance on the bar exam, Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Daniel Martin Katz and Michigan State University College of Law Adjunct Michael Bommarito found that the program got answers on the Multistate Bar Exam correct half the time, compared to 68% for human test takers.

  3. LawNext Podcast

    Chicago-Kent Professor Daniel Martin Katz Discusses Experiment Giving Bar Exam to AI of GPT-3.5

    “Legalese is very complicated obviously for people and it’s been really thorny for machines to work with,” said Chicago-Kent Professor Daniel Martin Katz. “We saw these large language models, of which GPT is an example, beginning to make increasing progress at least with general language, and we thought maybe this will be the one that can cross the Rubicon and really start to do well with legal language.”

  4. Summarily

    Law Professor Harold Krent Analyzes 11th Circuit Opinion on Bathroom Access for Transgender Boy

    “We have evolved as a society to understand that discrimination based upon different treatment, based upon sex means more than just biology,” said Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent.

  5. ABC7 Chicago

    Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro Discusses Illinois Supreme Court's Role in SAFE-T Act Case

    “They understand that staying a new and important law go from going into effect is significant, and that if that they're going to strike down the law or uphold the law either way that decision needs to be made relatively quickly,” said Professor Carolyn Shapiro, Chicago Kent College of Law.

  6. WGN Radio

    Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent Discusses SAFE-T Act, Separation of Powers

    “What I think the opinion misses is that the legislature plays a vital role in the criminal justice system and always has,” Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent said of a judge’s ruling on Illinois’ SAFE-T Act. “In fact it starts with the fact that, what is criminal? Judges don’t decide what’s criminal, the legislature does. What about sentencing? It’s the legislature that sets the parameters of sentencing. ... There is a joint undertaking from the legislature and the judicial.”

  7. WLS-AM 890

    Professor Harold Krent Talks About Kankakee County Judge's Ruling on SAFE-T Act Cash Bail Provision

    “I’m not suggesting that the legislature drew a perfect line here in terms of when we should decide an individual is dangerous and should not be released prior to the trial, but I do think that it’s up to the legislature to make a good-faith effort to accommodate the interests of safety, of fairness, and that’s what they attempted to do,” said Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent.

  8. Daily Herald

    Separation of Powers Expert Harold Krent Explains Legislature's Role in Criminal Justice System

    “We can all draw the lines differently,” Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent said, “but I think ... the Kankakee court didn’t notice that this was a reasonable effort under the Illinois constitution to try to accommodate the interests of the public in being safe, with having a fair and equitable criminal justice system that didn’t automatically make freedom pending trial contingent upon someone’s wealth.”

  9. WBEZ Radio

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Richard Kling Says Judge's SAFE-T Act Ruling Wasn't a Surprise

    “The arguments raised all had merit, they weren’t frivolous,” Chicago-Kent Professor Richard Kling said. He noted that Judge THomas Cunnington did not issue an injunction along with his ruling, meaning that the decision will not stop jurisdictions that are not among the plaintiffs in the suit from implementing the provisions of the SAFE-T Act.

  10. ABC7 Chicago

    SAFE-T Act Ruling Diminishes Authority of Legislature, Professor Harold Krent Says

    "The court short-changed the legislature's longstanding interest in defining what is a crime, defining what is a sentence for a particular crime, and defining when bail should be allowed or not allowed," said Professor Harold Krent, Kent College of Law and separation of powers expert.