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Law and Artificial Intelligence: Doctrine, Institutions, and Governance

This seminar examines how artificial intelligence, including large language models, agentic AI, and related machine-learning systems, is changing legal practice, doctrine, and even legal institutions. Through technical readings, legal scholarship, and cases, students consider AI’s implications for topics such as contract and tort liability, intellectual property, administrative decision-making, legal services and courts, corporate governance, and the governance of AI itself. The seminar consists of classes devoted to discussion of readings, followed by student presentations of works in progress. By the end of the course, students should be able to explain the legally relevant capabilities of modern AI and to assess competing doctrinal, institutional, and regulatory responses to the central technological transformation of our time

Catalog Number: LAWSTUDY 728

Additional Course Information: Research Writing

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Course History

Fall 2026
Title: Law and Artificial Intelligence: Doctrine, Institutions, and Governance
Faculty: McGinnis, John O. (courses | profile)
Section: 1     Credits: 3.0
Capacity: 20     Actual: 19