Virtual Cyber Policy Talk; The Democratizing Potential of Algorithms?
12:00PM to 1:30PM
Zoom
Jurisdictions are increasingly turning to pretrial risk assessment algorithms as part of a cost-saving and viable solution to the problem of mass pretrial incarceration. Conversations about the use of pretrial algorithms in legal scholarship have tended to focus on their opacity or their (in)ability to reduce high rates of incarceration as well as racial and socioeconomic disparities within the pretrial system. This Article breaks from that tendency, examining these algorithms from a democratization of criminal justice perspective.
The Role of a Free Press in a Time of Turmoil; A Virtual “Brown Bag Lunch” Discussion
12:00PM to 1:30PM
Zoom
The Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School invite you, your journalist colleagues and others from your organization to the next in their series of occasional lunchtime discussions of current issues facing journalists and their lawyers.
