By Daniel Rankin “Success in creating effective AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization, or the worst. We just don’t know. So we cannot know if we will be infinitely helped by AI, or ignored by it and side-lined, or conceivably destroyed by it.” —Stephen Read more…
Just as radio and television revolutionized the world of politics, social media has transformed how the US communicates and functions. Hear from two industry leading lawyers on how social media will continue shaping our government.
Special thank you to the Graduate Blockchain Society at McCombs for helping JOLTT make this panel happen! See Gordon Bowman, cohost of this event for more information. ************** Come join us for a riveting discussion of blockchains, the blockchain business model, and the legal ramifications surrounding blockchain technology. The panel Read more…
The Journal of Law and Technology at Texas (JOLTT – http://jolttx.com/) is proud to present the panel Unwarranted Surveillance, featuring Shahid Buttar of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck of The UT School of Law. Shahid will be visiting Austin as a guest of EFF-Austin, a Read more…
Congrats to the new JOLTT Executive Board for the 2017-18 school year! Editor-in-Chief: Tyler Oubre Web Editor-in-Chief: Brendon Liam Walsh Assistant EIC: Sam Higginbotham VP Content Development: Justin Laden Directors of Content Development: Sam Higginbotham, Zeyi Lin, Brendon Liam Walsh, Sarah Hampton Tech Director: Zeyi Lin VP Membership: Sam Higginbotham Read more…
From February 9, 2017: the Journal of Law and Technology at Texas presents a roundtable discussion on fake news and social media. The speakers include Texas Tribune Co-Founder and Executive Editor Ross Ramsey, In-House Counsel to Dell and Professor of Law and Social Media at UT Law Ryan Garcia, and Read more…
Automating Surgery: The Law of Autonomous Surgical Robots by David Britton* Autonomous surgical robots will soon operate on patients. Robots will use sensors to measure patients’ physiology and pathologies, use that information to plan how to complete the necessary surgical actions, and execute those plans by physically moving surgical tools–all Read more…