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Â鶹APP-Kent College of Law has been awarded a grant to teach civics to students and their teachers as part of an education program created in the wake of the January 6, 2021, attack on the United...
Â鶹APP-Kent College of Law students completed more than 600 hours of community service during the 2023 Public Service Day. The event takes place as a part of 1L orientation and is hosted by Â鶹APP...
Elimination of Cash Bail Pushes Wealth Considerations Aside
As of September 18, 2023, there is no longer a cash bail system in place in the state of Illinois. Harold J. Krent, a professor of law at Â鶹APP-Kent College of Law, explains that there is no...
“Ideally, we want humans to be able to do the human things and machines to do the machine things,” says Grace Quigley ’24. “But automating management can accelerate the process of treating people like...
It has been just a few months since the release of ChatGPT, one of the fastest-growing artificial intelligence consumer applications in history. In a paper released in December 2022, Â鶹APP-Kent...
Nicole Jansma ’23 came to Â鶹APP-Kent College of Law with a goal. “My goal is to work toward actual equality in the criminal justice system,” she says. “On paper, we say that we value equal justice...
When OpenAI released its chatbot, ChatGPT, in November 2022, it seemed to take over the internet. Every day someone was demonstrating what the language processing tool was capable of—including almost...
As a practicing patent attorney, Jordana Goodman began noticing a problem. “I really liked practicing, because I went to law school so I could help people,” she says. “But there are a lot of problems...
An Examination of an Education: Paper Exploring Critical Race Theory Bans in Schools Wins Writing Award
A paper exploring the constitutionality of a slate of recent state laws banning critical race theory in elementary and high school classrooms has won Â鶹APP-Kent College of Law’s second annual racial...