Summary
Georgetown University has two primary programs related to AI Policy:
The AI Policy Lab (AIPL) at the McCourt School of Public Policy was launched in the summer of 2023 to craft concrete, actionable recommendations for Executive Branch officials, Members of Congress and staff. The Labs convene a small, curated group of experts on a rotating set of AI-related topics to drill down into practical policy guidance that have a real path to implementation.
Georgetown Law School’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy (Tech Institute) is committed to exploring and expanding the rapidly evolving intersection of artificial intelligence and the law through events, academic offerings, and faculty and staff thought leadership in the field.
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Tech Institute
600 New Jersey Avenue NW Washington DC 20001
Phone: 202.662.9000
AI Policy Lab
McCourt School of Public Policy
125 E St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202-687-5932
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Academic Offerings
Source: Tech Institute Website
With over 80 classes offered each year, Georgetown Law’s robust tech curriculum reflects the diverse and fast-changing array of issues facing lawyers and policymakers. During the 2024-2025 academic year, we are pleased to offer eight classes focused on artificial intelligence and how its rapid development is changing the field:
- Advanced Legal Writing with Generative AI
- Artificial Intelligence and the Law
- Artificial Intelligence and National Security: Law, Ethics, and Technology
- GenAI and Big Law
- Generative AI and the Future of Free Speech & Copyright Law
- Law of Robots
- Legal Skills in an AI-Powered World
- The Law and Ethics of Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics
eorgetown Law Technology Review Symposium: Artificial Lawyering — Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
On January 30, 2024, the Georgetown Law Technology Review hosted its biennial symposium. The 2024 symposium, Artificial Lawyering — Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, convened legal academics, government technologists, practitioners, philosophers, librarians, and media experts seeking to answer important questions about how artificial intelligence will affect both the law and the legal profession. View the agenda.
Forthcoming Casebook: Artificial Intelligence Law
Faculty Co-Director Professor Paul Ohm’s forthcoming casebook on artificial intelligence law, co-authored with Professor Margot Kaminiski of the University of Colorado Law School and Professor Andrew Selbst of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, will be a crucial and unprecedented teaching tool for burgeoning course curriculums on artificial intelligence law. Read updates on the casebook.
The casebook is based upon the materials Professor Ohm utilized in his course Artificial Intelligence and Law, first taught at Georgetown Law in Fall 2023. In that course, which examined the emerging legal frameworks surrounding machine learning and other forms of AI, students analyzed artificial intelligence law in the United States and internationally.
Events
AI Governance Series
The AI Governance Series, an initiative of the Tech Institute’s Global TechNet Working Group and the Yale Information Society Project, is an event series that convenes academics, activists, policymakers, and industry leaders to speak on and debate issues of technology law and digital governance globally. Since its launch in April 2021, the AI Governance Series has hosted more than a dozen events, featuring U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang, OpenAI executive Jason Kwon, and Justice Ricardo Cueva of Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice. The AI Governance Series hosted its most recent event, featuring European Parliament Member Brando Benifei, on July 9, 2024.
See the full list of past events and watch the recordings.
Global Perspectives on AI Governance
UNESCO, the OECD, President Biden’s Executive Order, and the EU AI Act all emphasize the importance of diverse perspectives when analyzing artificial intelligence’s unique and novel challenges. In April 2024, twelve lawyers in the Technology Law & Policy LL.M. program came together to present lightning talks on the critical issue of how regulatory approaches to AI will differ across countries and regions, while drawing on their experience working in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Topics included policy approaches to deepfakes in Colombia, the development of AI regulations in Japan, and the way that U.S-China relations affect AI policy approaches in Southeast Asia. Learn more about the event.
Government AI Hire, Use, Buy (HUB) Roundtable Series
In 2024, the Tech Institute is joining forces with the Georgetown University Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation and the Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology to host a series of invite-only roundtables examining the government’s use of artificial intelligence. These roundtables bring together officials across government, civil society, academia, and the private sector to examine the U.S. government’s role as an employer of AI talent, a user of AI systems, and buyer of AI systems. The initiative is funded by a generous grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
After each roundtable, high-level takeaways will be made public. The series will conclude with a final roundtable to synthesize conclusions from earlier events and provide final, actionable policy recommendations for the policy community. Results of this concluding roundtable will feature in a final public webinar.
