The program’s first crop of graduates are already making an impact, advising tech firms, governments, and nongovernmental organizations on responsible AI policy.
One year after launching the world’s first LL.M. Certificate in AI Law and Regulation, the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law is expanding the program’s curriculum and highlighting the growing impact of its graduates across industries and continents.
Stromsheim, whose meandering path from nursing in Norway to law in Berkeley led to a successful career as a bankruptcy attorney, also gave $500,000 to the university’s Goldman School of Public Policy.
Hosted by the Center for Indigenous Law and Justice, the events illuminated the role of Native nations’ sovereignty within America’s legal system and fostered appreciation for tribal rights to self-determination.
A cultural property law expert and violin maker, Shapreau’s research — which has uncovered valuable instruments plundered by the Nazi regime during World War II — is sparking media coverage and interest from documentary filmmakers.
Drawing on his training as a philosopher, his experiences living in the United States and France, and on his nearly three decades as a faculty member at a public university, Kutz uses the analogy of musical improvisation to describe the way collective actions take shape.
Andrea Roth, a professor at University of California, Berkeley Law, who proposed some changes to the committee, warned that the use of the words “simple” and “scientific” could “create mischief and unnecessary litigation.” She also said the proposed phrase “machine-learning” was “both under and over inclusive,” as it may omit complex algorithms that merit scrutiny.
David Carrillo, executive director at Berkeley Law’s California Constitution Center and Assistant Professor Emily Rong Zhang comment on California Republican’s constitutional challenge to the state’s newly approved congressional maps.
Emily Rong Zhang, an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley’s law school, said redistricting has long been a “wild west” of the US democratic system. “It’s brute force politics where the fights are some of the dirtiest.”
