Grant to UC Irvine Law to support artificial intelligence and emerging technologies curriculum

February 3, 2020

UCI LAW —  As rapidly developing technologies outpace the law, profound ethical questions and challenges are being raised. At the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law), faculty members are using their interdisciplinary expertise to ensure that law, policy and ethics keep up with these technological changes, and they are working to develop the

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Podcast: A look at the first issue of the MIT Computational Law Report

January 28, 2020

ABA JOURNAL — In spring 2019, MIT announced the MIT Computational Law Report, which according to its website, “is an agile, new media online publication that explores the ways that law and legal processes can be re-imagined and engineered as computational systems.” Of course, MIT does not have a law school. However, according to Bryan Wilson, editor-in-chief

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Opinion: AI and big data will transform the legal sector

January 28, 2020

FORBES — Today, artificial intelligence offers a solution to solve or at least make the access-to-justice issue better and completely transform our traditional legal system. Here’s what you need to know about how AI, big data, and online courts will change the legal system.

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UC Irvine Law receives grant to develop AI and tech curriculum

January 28, 2020

UCI LAW — As rapidly developing technologies outpace the law, profound ethical questions and challenges are being raised. At the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law), faculty members are using their interdisciplinary expertise to ensure that law, policy and ethics keep up with these technological changes, and they are working to develop the

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University of Colorado Law hosts Congressional hearing on tech company regulation

January 28, 2020

CU BOULDER TODAY — Members of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hosted their first field hearing in a decade in the University of Colorado Law School’s Wittemyer Courtroom.

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Santa Clara Law professor Colleen Chien testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee on improving patent quality

January 27, 2020

IPWATCHDOG — October 30, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property heard from five witnesses on ways to improve patent quality at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Subcommittee subsequently posed questions to the witnesses, including professors Colleen Chien, R. Polk Wagner, and Melissa Wasserman, to supplement their testimony. Those witnesses have

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Penn State Dickinson Law sponsors international privacy and technology workshop

January 21, 2020

PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — Penn State’s Dickinson Law, the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) and Monash University have joined together to sponsor the “Privacy, Technology and Vulnerability Workshop,” which will be held at Monash University Prato Centre in Prato, Italy on June 22-23. The invitation-only workshop will create a platform for discovering

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Podcast: Northwestern Law professor Dan Rodriguez discusses the future of legal innovation and legal education

January 21, 2020

LEGAL TALK NETWORK — They discuss Dan Rodriguez’s work within the legal education sphere, including his drive towards innovation and his efforts to facilitate connections between legal education and the broader legal community before turning the conversation more broadly to the future of legal innovation, the need for regulatory changes, improving access to justice, the

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Columbia Law professor Anu Bradford co-leads study on global competition laws and enforcement practices

December 27, 2019

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — Columbia Law School Professor Anu Bradford and University of Chicago Law School Professor Adam Chilton have released the world’s most comprehensive collection of competition laws and enforcement practices to date, providing researchers, lawyers, journalists, and policymakers with new tools to assess the economic impact of these laws across borders.

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