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  1. F.E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar

    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

  2. Claudio's avatar

    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

  3. Charles Pigden's avatar

    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

  4. Mark's avatar

    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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  6. Jonathan Turner's avatar

    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

  7. Craig Duncan's avatar

Intellectual Property On-Line (and with CLE Credit to Boot!)

Brian Leiter

Douglas Lichtman (UCLA) writes regarding a new project, the Intellectual Property Colloqium:

It is essentially an online audio program devoted to intellectual property topics.  We aspire to be something like an NPR talk show, but focused on copyrights and patents, and aimed primarily at a legal audience.  The programs are neither lectures nor debates.  They are conversations, ideally thoughtful ones, with guests drawn from academia, the entertainment community, and the various technology industries.

 

Each program lasts one hour; is downloadable; and (the kicker) any lawyer who listens to our programs can earn (free) CLE credit in California, New York, and any state that accepts one of those through reciprocity.  (We should soon be able to offer CLE in all the states, but for now the combination of California, New York, and reciprocity should cover most of our audience regardless.)

I host each program; and our first one, a lively conversation with Fred von Lohmann of the EFF, is up and ready to go.  A schedule of up-coming shows is already posted on the site, as are a variety of subscription features that provide updates every time a new audio is available.

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