AALS and law school deans discuss innovations in legal education

February 19, 2020

CNBC — And these pressures, both financial and technological, are forcing law schools to change. “People mention that law schools haven’t changed in a while,” James Greif, communications director at the Association of American Law Schools tells CNBC Make It. “I think that maybe they’re not paying close enough attention.”

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American University Washington College of Law co-hosts law enforcement and cybersecurity symposium

February 10, 2020

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — On Wednesday, Feb. 5, American University Washington College of Law’s Tech, Law, and Security Program (TLS). The day-long event brought together members of law enforcement and the cybersecurity community, industry experts, advocacy groups, and various branches of government to examine the current challenges to preventing, investigating, and prosecuting cyber and cyber-related

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Arizona State University Law to host law and technology conference

February 10, 2020

EIN PRESSWIRE — Your registration to the Ipro Tech Show will also grant you access to select special joint sessions with ASU-Arkfeld eDiscovery, Law and Technology Conference, which will run concurrently. While each event will maintain its independence, these co-produced joint sessions will allow those attending either conference to engage with thought leaders and other

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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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