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Chicago-Kent Professor Daniel Martin Katz Co-Authors New Book on the History, Design and Governance of AI Agents

“We are moving into this world of increasingly autonomous systems operating on our behalf,” says Professor Daniel Martin Katz. “People need to know what that means.” Katz, with co-authors Michael...

Chicago-Kent Climbs to No. 7 in IP Law Rankings

Chicago-Kent College of Law has been ranked the 7th-best law school in the nation for intellectual property law by U.S. News & World Report in the publication’s 2026 Best Law...

Copyright Controversy: Understanding the Olympic Music Copyright Issues

United States figure skater Amber Glenn may have won a gold medal in the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, but that didn’t stop her from skating into copyright issues with...

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Law Professor Raff Donelson Discusses War Powers Act and Constitutionality as Iran Conflict Nears 60-Day Mark

“Most presidents have not conceded that it’s constitutional, and there are a number of scholars, including myself, who think that there are some constitutional problems with the War Powers Resolution,” says Raff Donelson, professor of law and philosophy at Chicago-Kent College of Law. "Most presidents, despite those qualms, have attempted to follow the framework that it sets up.”

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Law Professor Jason R. Bent Weighs in on DOJ’s Argument That Legal Effort to Curb AI Bias Violates 14th Amendment

“The main concern is not that you’re intentionally discriminating by setting parameters in the algorithm based on the training data,” said Jason R. Bent, law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “It’s that it is going to reproduce, based on the training data, some existing biases or existing disparate outcome.”

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Shadow Docket Likely Plays a Role in Supreme Court Justices’ Public Incivility, Says Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro

“The liberal justices are clearly unhappy with the way the court is deciding very consequential things, sometimes with no explanation whatsoever, in very rushed ways—and their dissents have indicated as much,” said Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “What’s spilling out into public view isn’t superficial. It’s related to the substance of what they’re doing.”

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