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Emily Kadens, Williams Memorial Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, is a legal historian specializing in the medieval and early modern history of commercial law and practice. With a JD from the University of Chicago and a PhD in medieval history from Princeton, she is an expert on early modern English equity court archives. Kadens is currently utilizing previously unexamined equity court files to study the history of commercial practice and commercial fraud in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Her extensive writings cover whether custom functions within law and the concept of medieval law merchant, as well as the early history of English bankruptcy. Kadens is also engaged in a project that involves a neural net platform developed in Europe to create an AI model capable of automatically transcribing sixteenth- to early seventeenth-century English secretary hand with high accuracy, aiming to make equity court materials available in a searchable online repository.
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