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In Praise of Inequality, by Colleen V. Chien

*This is the eleventh post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Equality is appealing, can be SMART, and as […]

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Naïve Realism, Cognitive Bias, and the Benefits and Risks of AI, by Harry Surden

*This is the tenth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. In the The Equality Machine, Orly Lobel […]

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On the Need For (and Difficulties of) Reaching A “Mature Position” About AI, by Oren Tamir & Tomer Kenneth

*This is the ninth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. How things change. In the not-too-remote past, […]

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Upcoming Blog Symposium: Rebuilding Expertise, by William Araiza

Next week, Notice & Comment will host an online symposium on William Araiza’s recent book, Rebuilding Expertise: Creating Effective and Trustworthy Regulation in an Age of Doubt. For anyone who lives in the New York City area or who may be visiting next week, next Tuesday evening, March 21, Brooklyn Law School will be hosting a […]

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The Machine in the Mirror, by Stephanie Bornstein

*This is the eighth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. There is something both wonderful and troubling […]

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Public-Private AI Governance Partnerships, by Elena Chachko

*This is the seventh post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine invites us to shift […]

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The Transparency Machine, by Talia Gillis

*This is the sixth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Orly Lobel’s rich and insightful book provides […]

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Dreams and Dystopia, by Matthew Bodie

*This is the fifth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. There are two books, both separately competing […]

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The Health Equity Machine?, by Jessica L. Roberts

*This is the fourth post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. In her inspiring and compelling book, The Equality […]

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Discrimination and the Human Algorithm, by Mark Lemley

*This is the third post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Legal scholarship around artificial intelligence (AI) has […]

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Cycles and Loops: Human Actors in Lobel’s “The Equality Machine,” by Pallavi Bugga & W. Nicholson Price II

*This is the second post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. In the midst of abundant scholarly criticism […]

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Technology is Not the Boogeyman: Orly Lobel’s “The Equality Machine,” by Christopher Slobogin

*This is the first post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. The message of Orly Lobel’s book The Equality […]

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Can We Build an Equality Machine? An Introduction, by Rachel Arnow-Richman

*This is the introduction to a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. All posts from this symposium can be found here. Further reviews can be found at Science, The Economist, and Kirkus. Consider these paradoxical […]

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APA Section 553 and Hayek’s Two Problems, by Yoon-Ho Alex Lee

Section 553 of the Administrative Procedure Act, more commonly known as the notice-and-comment rulemaking process, is hailed as “one of the greatest inventions of modern government.”[1] In my forthcoming Article—prepared for the Annual Review of Administrative Law issue—I consider the innovative value of Section 553 from the perspective of two problems identified by economist Friedrich A. Hayek.  To […]

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The Major Questions Doctrine and Legislative Experimentation, by Fred B. Jacob

The oral arguments this week in Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown on student debt cancellation gave the Supreme Court another opportunity to expand upon the major questions doctrine, which the Court formally gave life last term in West Virginia v. EPA, 142 S. Ct. 2587 (2022). Daniel Deacon and Leah Litman have criticized the “new” major questions doctrine’s reliance on political […]