Class-action waivers have become widespread in recent years, including airlines, ride-hailing apps, cellphone carriers and workplaces, as businesses increasingly take steps to “try and protect” themselves from class-action lawsuits, said Jeff Feldman, a University of Washington law professor and attorney who has defended against class-action lawsuits.
"Startup Biases is a project that grew out of a prior paper, The Landscape of Startup Corporate Governance in the Founder-Friendly Era, which employed survey and interview methods to understand the current state of startup corporate governance from the perspective of experienced lawyers in venture capital financings."
This commentary assesses the prospects for the U.S.-Japan alliance in, through, and at the nexus of the contemporary space domain. It surveys the threats the two allies face, their collaborative responses to date, and, looking ahead, the interconnected technology frontiers that will require preemptive and sustained diplomacy to reposition their allied interests in the final frontier. Three elements are critical to that mission: capabilities, clarifications, and communications.
A public fixation on extinction from AI could empower industry insiders and distract from AI’s more immediate harms.
Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes speaks with Monte Mills, a professor at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ and director of the school's Native American Law Center. He co-authored an amicus brief in the case on behalf of a number of tribal nations in this case.
"Some of the OGs in the field are here, queer and ready to support you. That's an exciting thing," Hutson said. "This is a diverse and amazing community of folks doing cool work."
Anita Ramasastry, a law professor and director of the Sustainable International Development graduate program at the University of Washington, said she wasn’t surprised that the sustainable development goals are off track. Ramasastry, who had no part in the report, said she doesn’t think many governments with more advanced economies, like the U.S., have embraced the goals or made them relevant to citizens’ daily lives.
In San Francisco, President Biden convened a meeting of artificial intelligence experts to weigh its risks and opportunities and consider the role of the federal government in regulating the technology. Geoff Bennett discussed the meeting with Ryan Calo, a professor of law and information science at the University of Washington.
In a 7-2 decision, the nation's highest court has upheld a law that says an attempt must be made to play tribal foster kids with extended family members or another Indian family before considering non-Indian adoptive or foster families. Stacey Lara, assistant teaching professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
In early December, the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ became one of a growing number of U.S. law schools that have decided to end their participation in the U.S. News & World Report ranking methodology.
In recent weeks, multiple teens have been charged in adult court in King County due either to the seriousness of the alleged offenses or their criminal histories, requiring them to be charged as adults according to state guidelines. Kim Ambrose, teaching professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
It’s the first lawsuit demanding the EPA do what Congress mandated, said Knudsen, an attorney with the Regulatory Environmental Law & Police Clinic at ºìÌÒÊÓƵ in Seattle.
On June 6, Humanities Washington and Bickersons Brewhouse hosted “AI Anxiety: How Should We Think About Artificial Intelligence,” a panel discussing artificial intelligence (AI) and what its developments might mean for the future of humanity.
ºìÌÒÊÓƵ alumni Janelle E. Chase Fazio and Samuel Daheim were named among the South Sound Business 40 under 40 for 2023.
The Seattle City Council on Tuesday will discuss and possibly vote on an ordinance "relating to the possession and public use of controlled substances.” The vote will determine if the provisions introduced in a new state law will be adopted into Seattle Municipal Code, giving the City Attorney’s Office jurisdiction to prosecute cases of known possession or use of illegal or controlled substances. The UW's Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law, and Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, a researcher at the UW School of Medicine, are quoted.
There’s a “growing chorus” of states that want to adopt COPA regulation, said Douglas Ross, a professor at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ.
Many experts, though, believe the greater danger lies in, as professor Ryan Calo of the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ put it, AI's role in "accelerating existing trends of wealth and income inequality, lack of integrity in information, & exploiting natural resources."
"The first reason is to focus the public's attention on a far fetched scenario that doesn’t require much change to their business models. Addressing the immediate impacts of AI on labor, privacy, or the environment is costly. Protecting against AI somehow 'waking up' is not," Calo tweeted.
It’s been four years since 26-year-old Jesse Sarey was shot and killed by Auburn police officer Jeffrey Nelson. His family says Sarey was having a mental health crisis and should have been met with compassion, not bullets. Meanwhile, Officer Nelson’s court hearings have been delayed more than a dozen times since he was arrested in 2020. Bill Bailey, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
A new statement warning about the risks of AI was signed by industry leaders such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton. But critics question whether such public figures are really operating in good faith. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“We’re hopeful that there continues to be dialogue at the international level, but a lot of the regulatory action is actually going to come, we think, at the national level,” Pekkanen says.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree in Asian studies from Dartmouth College while accomplishing a senior fellowship program on Native American water rights and earned her juris doctor from the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ with a focus on environmental mediation.
The social media platform Nextdoor is meant to connect neighbors on a hyperlocal level. It's a space to discuss local goods and services, and share information. But reporter Eli Sanders, a Gates Scholar at the UW School of Law, says that during a Mercer Island City Council election, the platform was used to spread misinformation about a candidate. And that's not the only time it's happened.
"Launched in 2011, Nextdoor says it has a unique value proposition: delivering “trusted information” with a “local perspective.” It promises conversations among “real neighbors,” a very different service than that offered by platforms such as Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook. Nextdoor says it’s now used by one in three U.S. households. More than half of Mercer Island’s residents—about 15,000—use the platform. It’s where many of the island’s civic debates unfurl. During the heated 2021 city-council race between Anderl and Akyuz, residents saw Nextdoor playing an additional role: as a font of misinformation," writes Eli Sanders, a Gates Scholar at the UW School of Law.
Because the mandatory 60-day window for advance notice of an upcoming lawsuit expired last week, Quiet Communities is now free to bring litigation at any time. In an email, Sanne Knudsen, a University of Washington law professor representing the group, said that EPA never replied to its March letter. Without specifying a date, Knudsen indicated that a suit is in the works over the agency’s “total failure to carry out the commands of the Noise Control Act for forty years.”
