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AI, Delaware’s Challenge and $8 Billion in Lessons

Nearly 250 legal professionals gathered for this year's Dan K. Moore Program in Ethics to wrestle with two forces reshaping corporate law: AI that is inverting how lawyers spend their time and a state competition that has companies questioning a decades-old assumption about where to incorporate.

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Prosecutors and Politics Project Unveils National Crime Legislation Analysis

State lawmakers introduced punitive criminal legislation at a rate 3.5 times higher than lenient ones between 2015 and 2018. A new report from Carolina Law's Prosecutors and Politics Project analyzed more than 11,000 bills across all 50 states to find out what that actually means for criminal justice reform.

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New Books from Carolina Law Faculty

From the roots of American common law to progressive politics in a purple state to the hidden risks of government chatbots, Carolina Law faculty are shaping the conversation well beyond the classroom.

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UNC School of Law Revitalizes Tax Program with Expanded Curriculum and Community Outreach

Carolina Law's tax program has a new national ranking, new faculty, new student organizations and a new mission: making tax law accessible to everyone, from first-year law students to community members who just want to file their own returns.

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Automated Government Systems Help Millions Access Legal Guidance, but Accuracy Concerns Remain

Federal agencies deploy automated chatbots that field tens of millions of legal questions each year. Professor Leigh Osofsky says those systems get the answers wrong more often than most people realize, and the people least equipped to catch the errors are the ones most likely to use them.

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