Western Regional Advocacy Project, 08/15/2026
PAC Students Contribute to New Research Report on the Making of Homelessness in the U.S.
Art As Real Property
When a museum sells donated art tied to donor restrictions, courts and attorneys have no clear rulebook. Edward W. De Barbieri and Patricia Youngblood Reyhan of Albany Law School propose borrowing one from real property law — giving institutions a framework that encourages giving while keeping art in public view.
Canvas, Issue 28
This month, museums quietly swap authentic works for reproductions, illustrators watch AI copies of their work multiply, and a federal exhibition conjures the founding fathers with AI.
PAC Celebrates a Decade of National Success Ending Juvenile System Fines and Fees
Berkeley Law, 08/04/2026
Prediction markets pose risks beyond lost revenue (8/4/2026)
Professor Kevin Washburn discusses why the timing of the latest NICG revenue report may not capture the effects of prediction markets, the broader risks he believes prediction markets pose to tribal gaming, and the legal questions he believes are headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
PAC’s Gus Patel-Tupper in Pew Article on Fiscal Pressures that Threaten Fines and Fees Reform
Pew Charitable Trusts, 07/23/2026
Berkeley Art, Law, and Finance Project: Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations Opening Reception
Hidden Layers brings together international artists working at the intersection of contemporary art and machine learning to make visible the layers of artificial intelligence that normally stay out of sight: among them, its planetary infrastructure, its ideological biases, its unexpected outputs.
Arkansas Reform Groups Release Report on the High Cost of Juvenile Fees and Fines
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, Arkansas Justice Reform Coalition, Arkansas Public Policy Panel, and Disability Rights Arkansas, 06/29/2026
The New Art Forgers
In the Arizona State Law Journal, Assistant Professor Geddes from The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law argues that courts are moving toward a troubling new standard — “substitutive similarity” — that would penalize AI-generated works simply for competing with human-authored ones, and proposes that Congress instead strengthen artists’ attribution rights by requiring AI companies to disclose their copyrighted training data.
Canvas, Issue 27
This month, we explore takeaways from the successful Fifth Annual Symposium at SFMOMA, federal threats to defund nearly half of all graduate arts programs in the country, and Los Angeles’ first AI art museum.