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Artificial Intelligence and Legal Ethics
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Artificial Intelligence has arrived. And attorneys are already getting in trouble because of how they used AI. With concerns regarding bias, privacy, the unauthorized practice of law, hallucinations, and more, navigating this new technology can be daunting. In this class, Professor Gary Marchant will explore what the emergence of artificial intelligence means for lawyers.
FACULTY:
Professor Gary Marchant
Regents and Foundation Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Center for Law, Science and Innovation, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Lincoln Professor of Law, Ethics & Emerging Technologies, Lincoln Center Applied Ethics
Exec Dir & Regent's Professor, Center for Cybersecurity and Trusted Foundations Affiliates
MODERATOR:
Mikel Steinfeld, Maricopa County Public Defenders Office
Gary Marchant
Ph.D., J.D., M.P.P., serves as the Regents’ Professor and Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law & Ethics, and Faculty Director of the Center for Law, Science & Innovation, at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU). He also serves as a Professor at the School of Life Sciences and Distinguished Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability at ASU. Professor Marchant’s research interests include the governance of emerging technologies, legal aspects of personalized medicine, use of genetic information in the legal system, legal aspects of risk assessment and risk management, and the application of science and technology in the legal system. He teaches courses such as Law, Science & Technology; Artificial Intelligence & the Law; Genetics and the Law; Biotechnology: Science, Law and Policy; Health Care Technologies; and Big Data, Privacy, and Emerging Technologies. Prior to joining the College faculty in 1999, Professor Marchant was a partner at the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis, where his practice focused on environmental and administrative law. During law school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and was awarded the Fay Diploma (awarded to top graduating student at Harvard Law School). Professor Marchant frequently lectures about the intersection of law and science at national and international conferences. He has authored more than 120 articles and book chapters on various issues relating to emerging technologies. Among other activities, he has served on five National Research Council committees, has been the principal investigator on several major grants, and has organized dozens of academic conferences and workshops on law and science issues.
Mikel Patrick Steinfeld, Maricopa County Public Defenders Office
Mikel supervises the Appeals Unit at the Maricopa County Public Defender's Office. A career-long public defender, Mikel's handled cases spanning from misdemeanor DUIs in local justice courts to capital cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. And he has a host of strong opinions on everything from legal writing and evidence rules to romance novels and Dungeons and Dragons.
