Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy

The Tech Institute and the Georgetown Law Technology Review are now accepting submissions to our annual writing competition! This year’s topic is Emerging Biotechnologies and Their Relationships to Personal Freedoms. Papers will be judged by a fully-blind panel of judges. The author(s) of the first place paper will be awarded $2,000; the author(s) of the second place paper will be awarded $500. Students enrolled in any ABA-accredited law school for the 2024-2025 academic year are encouraged to submit their papers for consideration. Read the full prompt: https://lnkd.in/etY2nyNB

Check out Issue 2 from the Georgetown Law Technology Review! The issue features essays from GLTR's Symposium earlier this year, as well as other works focusing on generative AI and deepfakes. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g6S7y_2N

Thank you to Georgetown University Law Center alumnus Harry Coker (L’92), National Cyber Director, for stopping by the Truman Bowling Alley in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to wish our Tech LLM 2024 grads congratulations! https://lnkd.in/evvDG_YE Director Coker shared thoughts on his current role and his path there, noting that Georgetown Law’s many tech offerings and the Tech Institute did not exist when he attended — and that he is so glad they do now. Thank you also to LLM graduate Patrick F. Kyhos for organizing this terrific opportunity — both White House bowling and meeting Director Coker — for his LLM cohort. This was an experience they won’t forget!

Last month, Jason Tashea, Founding Director of the Judicial Innovation Fellowship (JIF), participated in a Tiny Chat with the National Center for State Courts. Jason spoke with Danielle Hirsch and Zach Zarnow about how JIF came to be and the the important work that the first three Judicial Innovation Fellows are doing in the Kansas State Courts, Utah State Courts, and Hamilton County, Tennessee General Sessions Court. Watch the Tiny Chat: https://lnkd.in/ekTaNVQc

Last weekend, the Georgetown University Law Center class of 2024 graduated! We are so proud of our graduating Technology Law & Policy Scholars, Technology Law & Policy LL.M. students, Master of Law & Technology Students, and Georgetown Law Technology Review members. Thank you all for spending your time at Georgetown Law with us. Congratulations to the class of 2024!

Join us, the Center for Digital Ethics at Georgetown University, and the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law on Thursday, April 25 from 2:00-3:00 pm for a book talk with Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert about their new book, The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance, moderated by Laura DeNardis, Ph.D. In their book, the authors build on this basic premise: no matter what form data takes, and what purpose we think it's being used for, data will always have a secret life. How this data will be used, by other people in other times and places, has profound implications for every aspect of our lives—from our intimate relationships to our professional lives to our political systems. The book talk will be held in Car Barn 311 on the Georgetown University Main Campus.

Join the Tech Institute and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University TODAY at 12:30 PM for a conversation about the Global South, Geopolitics, the U.S., Europe, and China's Competition to Influence Global AI Regulation. This exciting panel will discuss the evolving state of African AI governance and engagement and will feature Nanjira Sambuli, Shikoh Gitau, Dr. Osei Bonsu Dickson FCIMArb, ArbP, and Bulelani Jili (启阳). Learn more and register for the livestream: https://lnkd.in/eV5p6CEQ

📣 Calling all rising Georgetown University Law Center 1Ls! Applications for incoming first year law students to the Technology Law and Policy Scholars Program are due on FRIDAY, APRIL 19. The Technology Law and Policy Scholars Program is an academic program that provides participating students with an opportunity to engage in rigorous academic work, develop practical skills, and acquire a deep understanding of many of the legal and policy debates related to new and emerging technologies. For more info, check out: https://lnkd.in/eBD2mq8p

It was such a joy to watch this year's Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy Tech LLM students present their research on how countries around the world are grappling with novel issues of AI governance during Tech & Society at Georgetown University Week. We're so glad to have spent the last year (or two!) with you and can't wait to see where you end up next!

Join us TODAY for Global Perspectives on AI Governance, taking place from 3:00-4:00 pm! The event will highlight the international perspectives of twelve experts in Georgetown’s Tech LL.M. program, who will bring their experience working in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to bear and provide insights on the critical issue of how regulatory approaches to AI will differ across countries and regions. Among these experts are Kaori Kawaguchi, presenting on the process for developing AI regulations in Japan; Katsuya Terai, presenting on copyright issues with training AI models in Japan; and Jay T. Conrad, presenting on sector specific proposals on AI policy in the United States. Register for this event and other Tech & Society at Georgetown University events at: https://lnkd.in/dqcYYwmR