New Classes Explore Promise and Predicaments of Artificial Intelligence
The Docket (UVA Law News) has an article about the AI Law class I’m helping Tom Nachbar teach:
New Classes Explore Promise and Predicaments of Artificial Intelligence
Attorneys-in-Training Learn About Prompts, Policies and Governance
The Docket, 17 March 2025
Nachbar teamed up with David Evans, a professor of computer science at UVA, to teach the course, which, he said, is “a big part of what makes this class work.”
“This course takes a much more technical approach than typical law school courses do. We have the students actually going in, creating their own chatbots — they’re looking at the technology underlying generative AI,” Nachbar said. Better understanding how AI actually works, Nachbar said, is key in training lawyers to handle AI-related litigation in the future.
Can we explain AI model outputs?
I gave a short talk on explanability at the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law Symposium on Artificial Intelligence at UVA Law School, 21 February 2025.
There’s an article about the event in the Virginia Law Weekly: Law School Hosts LawTech Events, 26 February 2025.
Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act
Josephine Lamp presented on the new data privacy law that is pending in Virginia (it still needs a few steps including expected signing by governor, but likely to go into effect Jan 1, 2023): Slides (PDF)
This article provides a summary of the law: Virginia Passes Consumer Privacy Law; Other States May Follow, National Law Review, 17 February 2021.
The law itself is here: SB 1392: Consumer Data Protection Act