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At this fireside chat-style discussion, Professors Bavitz and Tushnet will use the Supreme Court’s recent cert denial in Thaler v. Perlmutter to explore the doctrine of human authorship and originality and how those requirements apply to AI-assisted outputs.

Today’s U.S.-China AI race is often framed as the defining technological competition of our era. It is marked by a surge of subsidies, tax credits, and public-private investment, as governments commit billions to AI, data centers, and semiconductor infrastructure in pursuit of technological advantage. This cutthroat competition may seem like…

Discussions about courts in democratically backsliding and fully autocratic contexts usually focus on two aspects: their co-optation and instrumentalization by authoritarian actors, and their role in defending human rights and the rule of law. The role of courts in providing the intellectual scaffolding of legality to authoritarianism, or in offering…