Technology Part 2

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Courts & Judiciary

Regulating Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy: The Case for Judicial Oversight and the Bipartisan Model Legislation Passed in Maryland

Tebah Browne and Barry Scheck

While forensic investigative genetic genealogy can aid in solving cold cases, exonerating the wrongly convicted, finding the source of unidentified human remains, it also raises concerns about protecting privacy and intimate genetic information.

Courts & Judiciary

It’s Settled: How Technology Has Helped Magistrate Judges Be More Efficient and Effective

Judge Robert M. Spector

The daily challenges created by COVID required innovation to enable the aspects of day-to-day operations to succeed. Magistrate judges have continued to rely on, and benefit from, technological advances as a result.

Courts & Judiciary

Bankruptcy Courts and the Post-Pandemic Use of Courtroom Audio- and Videoconferencing Technology

Judge Daniel P. Collins and Judge Christopher J. Panos

Judges Collins and Panos recount pre-pandemic federal practices regarding the use of audioconferencing and videoconferencing technology in bankruptcy courtrooms, pandemic measures instituted by the federal judiciary, and post-pandemic practices.

Courts & Judiciary

Pandemic Policymaking in State Supreme Courts: Implications for the Administration of Justice

Alyx Mark

Mark presents findings on the variation in state supreme courts’ direction of procedural change during the pandemic and offers policy recommendations.

Courts & Judiciary

Beyond the Mysterious: Forensic Science Standards and the Law

Dana M. Delger and John Paul Jones II

Judges who have an understanding of forensic science documentary standards will be better equipped to understand the scientific analysis of evidence that litigants seek to admit or preclude in their courtrooms.

Courts & Judiciary

The Impending Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Digital Forensics

Michael C. Maschke

Digital forensics examiners must stay on top of all the latest technological advances because they will end up in a courtroom one day soon, in one form or another, as electronic evidence in a legal matter.

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Court Administration

The “Deepfake Defense”: An Evidentiary Conundrum

Judge Herbert B. Dixon Jr.

Judge Dixon discusses the struggle to determine the appropriate considerations when the opposition claims evidence is a deepfake—a video or audio created or manipulated using artificial intelligence.

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Technology Part 2

Technology and the Administration of Justice

Features

Regulating Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy: The Case for Judicial Oversight and the Bipartisan Model Legislation Passed in Maryland

It’s Settled: How Technology Has Helped Magistrate Judges Be More Efficient and Effective

Bankruptcy Courts and the Post-Pandemic Use of Courtroom Audio- and Videoconferencing Technology

Pandemic Policymaking in State Supreme Courts: Implications for the Administration of Justice

Beyond the Mysterious: Forensic Science Standards and the Law

The Impending Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Digital Forensics

Technology Column

The “Deepfake Defense”: An Evidentiary Conundrum

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Technology Part 2

Technology and the Administration of Justice

Features

Regulating Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy: The Case for Judicial Oversight and the Bipartisan Model Legislation Passed in Maryland

It’s Settled: How Technology Has Helped Magistrate Judges Be More Efficient and Effective

Bankruptcy Courts and the Post-Pandemic Use of Courtroom Audio- and Videoconferencing Technology

Pandemic Policymaking in State Supreme Courts: Implications for the Administration of Justice

Beyond the Mysterious: Forensic Science Standards and the Law

The Impending Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Digital Forensics

Technology Column

The “Deepfake Defense”: An Evidentiary Conundrum

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