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The development of Generative AI has been largely driven by strategic partnerships between large technology companies and startups. A growing debate asks whether these alliances amount to Big Tech control over the trajectory of AI innovation, and legal scholarship has responded through two frames: novel corporate structures designed to insulate startups from market pressure, and …

The intersection of artificial intelligence and religious practice has produced an unexamined gap in U.S. evidentiary law. Magisterium AI is a chatbot trained exclusively on official Catholic Church documents and it is now integrated into consumer applications in more than 165 countries. It represents a new category of technology: the institutional religious AI chatbot. When …

This Article examines whether artificial intelligence (“AI”) can serve as an emergency arbitrator in international arbitration. While AI’s limitations in human judgment, credibility assessment, and contextual interpretation render it unsuitable for merits adjudication, emergency arbitration presents a structurally distinct environment where AI integration may be appropriate. Emergency proceedings do not resolve substantive disputes but preserve …

Artificial intelligence can reproduce racial inequality without ever using race as an explicit input. Hiring models, tenant-screening systems, lending tools, and other automated decision systems can encode racialized patterns through proxies, historical data, and seemingly neutral concepts such as merit, fit, risk, and creditworthiness. Yet the legal response to Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard …