Statute recommendation: Re-ranking statutes by modeling case-statute relation with interpretable hand-crafted features

Artificial insemination--a model statute.

A Plea for a Statute

The well-known tendency of the lawyer engaged in the drafting of conveyances is to adhere as closely as possible to the beaten paths; to follow the forms handed down from the fathers; to view with suspicion and close scrutiny any departure therefrom, and to insert new clauses and covenants only when convinced that they are demanded by the necessities engendered by tonditions and enterprises unk...

The slayer statute and insanity.

It is common law that persons cannot benefit from their crimes. For this reason, most states have enacted slayer rules that prevent a killer from sharing in the victim's estate. However, terms in the slayer rules, such as willful and unlawful, can be difficult to apply, as illustrated by the situation in which a slayer is found not guilty by reason of insanity. The Washington Supreme Court has ...

Person re-identification with fusion of hand-crafted and deep pose-based body region features

Person re-identification (re-ID) aims to accurately retrieve a person from a large-scale database of images captured across multiple cameras. Existing works learn deep representations using a large training subset of unique persons. However, identifying unseen persons is critical for a good re-ID algorithm. Moreover, the misalignment between person crops to detection errors or pose variations l...

Rationalizing the fraud and abuse statute.