Seeing the number rise week after week is almost disorienting. In a single term, more than 650 lawsuits were filed against a single presidential administration; that number does not even include the hundreds of individual challenges to immigration detention that are covertly building up in federal courts from Minnesota to Texas. In most cases that have led to court decisions, including interim rulings, the government has lost. The Fulcrum That is not a topic for political discourse. It’s a scorecard. New York University data shows that 127 lawsuits were filed against the administration in just its first two months. Wikipedia…
Author: Janine Heller
Three judges perused a legal brief in a federal courthouse in New Orleans and discovered twenty-one falsehoods. fake case citations. false information. quotes that had never been produced by a court. The kind of mistakes that would have required a great deal of intentional dishonesty to produce in a different era. It simply means not verifying what your AI tool wrote for you in 2026. Heather Hersh of FCRA Attorneys was fined $2,500 by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on February 18th for using artificial intelligence to draft a large portion of a brief submitted in connection with…
What Harvard Business School has accomplished is almost subtly seismic. No press conference. No big announcement. Just a curriculum that has been reorganized, redesigned, and is now clearly pointing to one conclusion: understanding artificial intelligence is essential if you want to run a company in this day and age. Not hazily. Not voluntarily. sufficiently deep to use it, challenge it, and use it to make decisions. Data Science and AI for Leaders, the school’s new mandatory first-year course, isn’t a trend-chasing elective tucked away in a course catalog. It is required. Additionally, it is part of a larger trend in…
Between the first corporate recruiting fair and the welcome ceremony, there’s a moment when the idealism subtly disappears from the room. In 2018, Justin Portela arrived at Stanford with a five-page phone-typed essay on effective altruism, a strong interest in global health, and a belief that his education would be useful. He was employed at McKinsey two years later. He stated bluntly, “They funneled the shit out of me,” as though no more explanation was required. To be honest, it wasn’t. That tale, which is told in thousands of variations at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford each year, is at…
There is a certain type of announcement that makes you read the headline twice because it seems almost too ambitious to be true. That quality was present when Sal Khan introduced the Khan TED Institute on stage at TED2026 in Vancouver this past April. Developed in collaboration with ETS and TED, supported by Google, McKinsey, and Microsoft, this under-$10,000 higher education program is intended to compete with universities that charge forty times as much. Either it’s one of the most daring experiments ever tried, or it’s the most significant development in education in a generation. Maybe both. FieldDetailsInitiative nameKhan TED…
Watching a legal protection vanish through a memo rather than a court decision or a congressional vote causes a certain type of vertigo. In April of this year, the Education Department quietly revoked six Title IX agreements, which were signed during the administrations of Obama and Biden. These agreements required school districts to implement policies that protected transgender students. I’ve lost six agreements. And it’s up to schools, students, and legal professionals to figure out what it really means. CategoryDetailsLaw / PolicyTitle IX of the Education Amendments of 1972Enforcing AgencyU.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil RightsOriginal PurposeProhibit sex-based discrimination…
On Harvard’s campus, there is a building that is probably exactly the same as it was ten years ago. It is brick, old, and exudes the kind of quiet authority that comes from centuries. However, something has changed around it. There are lawyers inside. The endowment office is performing calculations that it never anticipated. Additionally, Harvard is no longer being treated as an untouchable institution by Washington for the first time in a long time. It’s being handled like a target. Given the months of rising tension that preceded it, the Trump administration’s decision to freeze $2.3 billion in federal…
Alaska’s courts’ announcement of their AI aspirations has an almost poignant quality. The concept was fairly simple: create a chatbot that could guide bereaved locals through the probate process, explain the proper paperwork to submit, and spare them the trouble of navigating a legal system that, to the majority of people, seems to have been created to be confusing. They estimated three months. a tidy project. Then came reality. Instead, the Alaska Court System endured a fifteen-month ordeal through one of the nation’s most transparent government AI development experiments. The Alaska Virtual Assistant, or AVA as the team refers to…
One particular moment from Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s recent speech at the University of Alabama School of Law sticks out. It’s not the well-crafted legal analysis or the thoughtfully phrased policy opinions, but rather a single sentence that struck a chord with a room full of aspiring attorneys. “It shows we’re way too predictable.” She wasn’t discussing a pattern in oral arguments or a colleague’s disagreement. She was discussing artificial intelligence, particularly AI models that have become remarkably adept at predicting the Supreme Court’s decision before the justices have even heard a case. CategoryDetailsFull NameSonia Maria SotomayorDate of BirthJune 25, 1954Place…
There comes a time when a university becomes something completely different from local news. That moment may have come quietly for Rowan University, with a membership announcement that most people outside of academic circles hardly noticed rather than a press conference or ribbon-cutting. The Global Consortium of Innovation and Engineering in Medicine, a global public-private-government partnership that links medical schools, researchers, business executives, and governments worldwide, has welcomed Rowan University’s Cooper Medical School. On paper, it sounds bureaucratic. It isn’t. FieldDetailsFull NameCooper Medical School of Rowan UniversityTypePublic Medical SchoolParent InstitutionRowan University, Glassboro, New JerseyFounded2012 (First new NJ medical school in…