Legal AI is poised to transform the work of legal professionals, and judges are no exception. This study reports on a randomized field experiment conducted in partnership with Pakistan’s Federal Judicial Academy, in which AI technology and skills were integrated into the workflow of Pakistan judges. Our team developed an LLM…
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Join us for a book talk with Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, about his recent book The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. In an age when liberal democracy is in recession around the world, and authoritarianism is on the rise, some now argue that capitalism is better without…
What cumulative impacts needs is a simple solution to a complex problem, or at least a simplified approach if solution is a too ambitious goal. A solution implies that they would cease to exist, yet cumulative impacts are a part of everyone’s everyday lives. The question remains whether a feasible, standardized approach can be…
We use the term “justice” in many climate contexts (e.g. “just transition”)—and indeed in a variety of other political and policy contexts (e.g. “social justice”). What does it mean? In this talk, I break down some common forms of justice from a philosophical point of view in order to inform climate science and policy. The goal…
A talk featuring author, Josh Cowen about his new book, "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Voucher", a deep-dive investigation of education privatization that reveals voucher programs as the faulty products of decades of work by wealthy patrons and influential conservatives.
Climate change is changing the characteristic of weather extremes and slow changing climatic trends (physical climate risk). These combined with rising concentration of people and assets in high-risk areas, aging infrastructure and various macroeconomic factors, are leading to growing financial impacts on people, businesses,…
