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“The best hope we have of bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice is to ensure educational justice for all children. We must not be so all-consumed with our pursuit of justice, however, that we lose sight of children’s own interests, needs, and desires—their everyday lived schooling experiences matter—or else, the ends do not justify the means. Reckoning with those demands and guarantees, the law should be leveraged to uphold education as a civil right of freedom and equality, and, more fundamentally and humanely, as a human right of life and dignity.”
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winter 2025
Don’t Lose Sight of Children’s Interests, Needs
Constitutional Law Professor Joshua Weishart previously served as a professor at West Virginia University College of Law. His research focuses on education rights under federal and state law.
“We are living through a technical revolution fueled by the expansion of AI into every facet of modern life. New AI applications leverage advances in computer technology to offer new and often poorly understood complex decision-making, traditionally reserved for human ingenuity. The traditional IP and liability models do not appear to transfer well within this AI expansion. My research explores new AI legal models for regulating human behavior, employing the technology in a manner society believes is appropriate, while fostering AI-implemented innovation to benefit humanity and the public good.”
Clinical Professor Darrell G. Mottley, director of the Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic, previously served as a shareholder of a national IP law firm, as director of the IP Clinic at Howard University School of Law, and as an engineer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Creating Models to Regulate AI
“As a new member of the Board of Directors of Veterans Legal Services, a legal aid organization that provides free legal services to low-income veterans in Massachusetts, I hope to look further into the outstanding lawyering happening within that organization, gain insight into best practices when representing access to justice-oriented populations, and ultimately develop a measure for assessing the quality of the representation received.”
Legal Writing Professor Chanal Neves-McCain practiced as an assistant attorney general in Massachusetts and taught civil procedure and legal ethics at New England Law.
Measuring the Quality of Representation Given to Low-Income Clients
Photograph by Michael J. Clarke