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What happens when a federal agency lacks permanent leadership? Stanford Law School's Anne Joseph O'Connell addresses this pressing question in the latest Stanford Legal episode, exploring the rules that determine who can step in and what powers they can exercise.
O'Connell Read moreand host Professor Pam Karlan examine how the federal bureaucracy functions when permanent appointments are delayed and what authority temporary leaders can exercise. Their discussion covers recent disputes that test the boundaries of presidential power and statutory constraints on interim appointments.
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Stanford’s Anne Joseph O’Connell examines who can step in when a top federal position is vacant and what recent court decisions could mean for ...
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Stanford Law Review Online is devoting its Volume 79 special collection to one of the most consequential issues in civil rights today: how artificial intelligence is reshaping questions of discrimination, fairness, representation, and accountability.
Scholars from the Stanford Center for Read moreRacial Justice are among those digging into these questions. In the recently released collection, the center’s Faculty Director Ralph Richard Banks, along with co-authors Guy-Uriel Charles, Spencer Overton, and Victor Y. Wu, examines disparate impact law and AI-driven discrimination: https://brnw.ch/21x5yWQ
Hoang Pham, the center’s director of education and opportunity, along with co-authors Hannah Cha and Rashon Poole, explores the deeper questions of representation behind debates over “AI bias”: https://brnw.ch/21x5yWP
The themes echo the center’s AI and Antidiscrimination Law convening earlier this year, which brought together scholars, advocates, policymakers, and technologists to examine how civil rights law should respond to algorithmic decision-making: https://brnw.ch/21x5yWR
Stanford Law School will host its annual Constitution Day Lecture on Sept. 17 at 5 p.m., featuring Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Balkin will examine how technological change affects constitutional governance, creating what he Read moreterms "constitutional rot"—the process by which a democratic republic becomes less democratic and less republican over time.
The lecture will explore how the Algorithmic Society has produced an Algorithmic State that disproportionately strengthens the executive branch, weakens Congress and limits judicial oversight. Balkin will address how large technology companies increasingly exercise governing power over communications and public debate, blurring traditional distinctions between public and private power.
The event is free and open to the public: https://brnw.ch/21x5xpI