In recent decades, technology has reshaped every aspect of modern life, evolving more rapidly than law and policy. The Tech Institute’s mission is to close the gap between law, policy, and technology by training students, educating policymakers, and informing the public about the key challenges and opportunities that arise at the intersection of law and technology.
We train the next generation of lawyers and lawmakers with deep expertise in technology law and policy; we provide non-partisan insights to policymakers on issues relating to new and emerging technologies; we foster interdisciplinary approaches to solving technology law and policy problems; and we identify and create opportunities for technology to improve access to justice.
Our Institute provides a uniquely valuable forum in Washington, DC for policymakers, academics and technologists to discuss the most pressing issues and opportunities in technology law today.
In today’s legal landscape, the well-trained lawyer needs to understand the ways that technology and law increasingly intersect — and be comfortable with the digital tools that are shaping twenty-first century practice.
More than ever, lawyers and policymakers need a deep understanding of technology. Georgetown Law developed two new academic programs, a Master of Laws (LL.M) in Technology Law & Policy and a first-of-its kind, Master of Law and Technology (M.L.T.) for non-lawyers.
Georgetown Law students are not only familiar with contemporary policy debates; they also learn how to code, have written legislative proposals, and submitted briefs to the Federal Circuit, FCC, and FTC.
Join us for a conversation with Linnet Taylor, professor at Tilburg University, Siddharth Peter De Souza, post-doctoral researcher at Tilburg University, and our moderator, Georgetown Law Professor Julie Cohen. Linnet Taylor and Siddharth Peter de Souza recently published “Governing data and artificial intelligence for all: Models for sustainable and just data governance” for the European Parliament. They will be discussing this publication with a particular focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and how the European Union’s data governance framework can align with a data justice perspective. The analysis offers an assessment of the EU data governance strategy overall as well as an explanation of what this means for specific legislation, such as the AI act, the Data Governance act and the Data act.
This will be hosted on October 3rd from 12:00-1:20pm ET in the 6th Floor Lounge of 500 First. This will be exclusive to students, faculty, and staff. Accommodation requests related to a disability should be sent to md1812@georgetown.edu. A good-faith effort will be made to fulfill requests.
In conjunction with the Center for the Constitution, empowered by the ability to collect and aggregate information about users and then to tailor messages designed to shape those users’ responses, today’s digital technologies can facilitate manipulation unprecedented in its reach and success. Differences in power and information matter to First Amendment law, permitting the government’s interventions to protect vulnerable listeners. The First Amendment permits the government to intervene to protect listeners from speakers’ manipulative efforts in certain settings.
Join us for our latest installment of the AI Governance Series, “A Conversation with Max Schrems", the founder of NOYB. This event is co-hosted by the Yale Information Society Project and Wikimedia, the Georgetown Institute for Technology Law and Policy and the Georgetown Global TechNet Working Group. We hope you will be able to join us Friday, October 7th at 10:00AM ET to hear our panel of experts discuss with Max Schrems and Anu Bradford, the Henry L. Moses Distinguished Professor of Law and International Organization at the Columbia Law School about their role in Data Protection. The panel includes Professor Anupam Chander, the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown Law; Mehtab Khan, the Resident Fellow and the lead for the Yale/Wikimedia Initiative on Intermediaries and Information; and Nikolas Guggenberger, Assistant Professor at University of Houston Law Center and founding member of this series.
“AI and The Future of Facial Recognition: Regulation, Moratoriums and Cross-border Dialogues” was a hybrid event Thursday, May 5th at 5:00pm ET. In partnership with the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy, the AI Future Lab and DC Global Shapers Community moderated a policy dialogue during this event. Organizations represented include the Ryerson Leadership Lab (RLL), Surveillance Technology Oversight Projects ( S.T.O.P.), and the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP). The panel discussed the merits of facial recognition and the legal roles needed for its development and management. Invited speakers discussed facets of facial recognition as it pertains to law, privacy, and society.
This year's installment of the annual Iron Tech Lawyer Invitational was hosted on Friday, April 29th at 9:00am ET. This is an international competition for student-created tech solutions that help bridge the justice gap! Student teams from around the world showcase legal tech and data analysis tools they have developed to help improve access to justice.
This is our latest installment of the AI Governance Series, entitlted “Towards Human-Centric AI: The Japanese model”, co-hosted by the Yale Information Society Project, the Georgetown Institute for Technology Law and Policy and the Georgetown Global TechNet Working Group. Following the panels of “The Geopolitics of Chinese AI” and “The Geopolitics of European AI”, this panel will focused on the Japan’s initiatives in AI Governance, learning about the policies and guidelines as well as some projects on AI and robotics which Japan is advanced in this area from leading experts in Japan. The structure of the panel involved each panelist giving a brief presentation followed by QAs. It was moderated by Kyoko Yoshinaga, Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Georgetown Institute for Technology Law and Policy. Our panel included Susumu Hirano, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Global Informatics, Chuo University; Hideaki Shiroyama, Director of Institute for Future Initiatives, Professor of Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo; and Toshie Takahashi, Professor, School of Culture, Media and Society/the Institute for AI and Robotics, Waseda University.
Tech Institue Announces the Winners to the 2022 Writing Competition
The Institute for Technology Law & Policy is pleased to announce the winners of the nation-wide 2022 Georgetown Law Technology Review Student Technology Writing Competition.
The winners are:
1st Place: Alyssa Rose Domino, Georgetown University Law Center, “From Food on a Platter to Food on the Platform: Datafication of the Restaurant Industry”
2nd Place: Eric Leis, The Law School at University of Notre Dame, "Judicial Review of Commissioner HAL 9000"
3rd Place: Yinuo Geng, Georgetown University Law Center, "Comparing ‘Deepfake’ Regulatory Regimes in the United States, the European Union and China"
Honorable Mention: Gabriella Mills, University of Houston Law Center, “The Limitations of Artificial Intelligence in the Sociological Sphere: Pretrial Risk Assessments, Domestic Violence, and the Bias Between”
Each winning paper is awarded a cash prize: $4,000 for first place, $2,500 for second place, and $1,000 for third place. In addition to cash prizes, each of the selected papers will be eligible to be published as student notes in the Georgetown Law Technology Review. Thank you to all who submitted papers, as well as our judges who took the time to review and select our winners this year.
