Legal Design in the Age of Generative AI (Tulante/Beaye)
Faculty
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| Sozi Tulante Adjunct Professor of Law Sozi.Tulante@dechert.com |
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| Wilfred BeayeWilfred.Beaye@dechert.com |
Additional Information
Skills Training
Team Projects
Expository Writing
Grading
25% Participation,
50% Paper,
25% Other (Short Assignments (use of GAI is acceptable))
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- If you are absent, due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email me and I can ask for volunteers among your classmates to share their notes with you.
Meeting Times/Location
W 6:40PM - 8:40PM
Tanenbaum Hall 345
Category
Seminar
Credits
3.0
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has moved rapidly from research labs into the infrastructure of public and private life, raising complex questions about how law should structure responsibility for its development and use. This course examines GAI as a transformative, systemic technology, focusing on how innovations in data pipelines, model architectures, and deployment platforms are reshaping the distribution of responsibility, accountability, and authority across institutions. We will pay particular attention to how federalism and separation of powers influence legal responses in the absence of clear legislative direction. Students will also examine how GAI is reshaping key sectors, such as healthcare, financial services, and the legal profession, by introducing new opportunities, risks, and regulatory challenges, with insights from guest speakers working at the forefront of these fields. Through real-world case studies and critical analysis, the course highlights how law and policy can respond to GAI’s transformative impact across diverse industries. Indeed, because GAI exists in the real-world context and has real-world consequences, you will hear from speakers who are implementing GAI in their businesses and weighing policies that impact many industries.
Over the semester, students will engage with case law, legislative materials, industry leaders, and policy analyses to address the core question: What might a legitimate, constitutional, and coherent legal framework for GAI look like in the coming decades? Classroom exercises will combine doctrinal analysis, institutional design, and comparative governance to develop students’ ability to evaluate, critique, and propose regulatory models.
Course Requirements. Active participation in class discussions. Weekly reading assignments, consisting of academic articles, professional publications, and news articles and other works on recent events. Students will be required to complete a final project, consisting of a research paper proposing a governance or legal design framework for an application of generative AI or generative AI more broadly.
Constitutional Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of constitutional law; Perform legal analysis in the context of constitutional law; Communicate effectively on topics related to constitutional law; Demonstrate an understanding of constitutional law affects other areas of law.
Intellectual Property and Technology Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of intellectual property law; Perform legal analysis in the context of intellectual property law; Communicate effectively on topics related to intellectual property; Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnection between technology and intellectual property, and how they affect other areas of law and society.
Administrative and Regulatory Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of administrative and regulatory law and the administrative process, including the role of statutory authorization and work of administrative agencies; Perform legal analysis in the context of administrative and regulatory law; Communicate effectively on topics related to administrative and regulatory law; Demonstrate an understanding of the role administrative and regulatory law play in our legal system and in society as a whole.