In the throes of “Radical Reconstruction,” the population of Georgia remained sharply divided along racial and political lines. Three long years passed between emancipation and the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, during which time the status of the state’s Black population remained uncertain. They were no longer enslaved but
Unlike ordinary civil litigation, which usually allows thirty days to appeal, appeals from bankruptcy court usually allow only fourteen. Adding to that difference, bankruptcy cases can have many appealable final decisions instead of just one. But what happens if an appeal is filed late? In ordinary civil litigation, that usually
Through ERISA, Congress prioritized the competent management of retirement plans held in trust for Americans, codifying strict fiduciary obligations and providing broad relief to those injured by fiduciaries failing to execute those duties. Specifically, ERISA provides retirement plan participants and beneficiaries, along with plans themselves and the Secretary of Labor,
Transcript of the Keynote Address given at the 29th Annual Georgia State University Law Review Symposium on March 22, 2024. This transcript has been edited for readability and clarity.
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The ability to easily recreate another’s face or voice and digitally superimpose it on one’s own has led to a surge in face and voice swapping using deepfakes and deep voices. This technology uses artificial intelligence to create digital replicas with hyperreal accuracy. These digital replicas challenge the
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing our society and bringing the legal profession with it. The use of Generative AI (GenAI) in legal proceedings has received negative publicity from high profile mishaps in court filings. In one case, attorneys used the publicly available online GenAI tool, ChatGPT, to write a legal
In the summer of 2023, the misuse of ChatGPT by two New York attorneys who filed briefs citing fabricated cases made national headlines. This cautionary tale quickly had company, as incidents of other lawyers whose use of artificial intelligence (AI) went horribly wrong filtered in from around the country, including
The United States of America is at a crossroads. The foundational promises of the American dream—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—have been thrust into public pessimism as the nation’s most economically vulnerable populations find themselves outsiders in their own communities, unable to access the legal tools
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) presents a transformative moment for the legal profession. This Article examines the increasing likelihood of AI reshaping the legal practice, highlights the critical issue of bias, and describes how a multisystem approach to AI can assist in mitigating issues of bias and ultimate
This Comment explores the extension of interest rate exportation to nonbank entities through the valid-when-made doctrine and its subsequent legal challenge in the 2022 court case California v. OCC.
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This Note discusses the information fiduciary model, proposed by Jack Balkin, where fiduciary duties would be imposed on data collectors and analyzes how such a model could come to pass in the United States.
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This Note examines Georgia’s application of harmless error review to constitutional errors and proposes a new standard to remedy deficiencies.
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This Note analyzes the contractual shortening of the ADEA’s filing period, contrasting it with Title VII’s requirements and advocating for legislative or judicial clarification.
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This Article examines how the young federal government responded to infectious diseases to ascertain the limits of federal powers and analyzes how federal powers were used in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This Article analyzes the presence of zombie provisions in the United States Constitution and state constitutions and the danger that these provisions may influence the interpretation of still-living constitutional provisions.
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