Summer 2024 Class Descriptions
New Information Tech and Law (hybrid) (LWIP556)
Instructor(s): Staff
3 credit(s), Letter Graded
Requirement(s): Writing
This course offers an introduction to the new information technology (IT) ecosystem and its implications for legal claims-making and practice. A new, technologically rich era of law is being facilitated by rapidly increasing amounts of online data and the growing sophistication of tools that enable searching and manipulation of digital data. Recent innovations include the application of algorithms and artificial intelligence to questions of policing, rights compliance, and criminal investigation. Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT and Bard are reconfiguring contract law, legal research, and access to justice. The subject matter of this course includes tech-driven developments in law that are still unfolding, making it possible to not only learn about them, but to shape them in a lasting way.
Note:
This course is being taught by Dr. Ronald Niezen of the College of Arts and Schiences. It isplanned in a hybrid mode: students may elect to attend in person or via Zoom.