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Community Engagement

Recent Highlights

  • In spring 2019, UCI Law students enrolled in “The AI Frontier: Disrupting Legal Services” successfully created and introduced a new California State Senate Select Committee on the Growing Impact of Artificial Intelligence. The focus of the select committee is to critically examine the state of AI in California and make recommendations for legislation to support the increased use of AI.  In November, members of the committee held a hearing on the impact of artificial intelligence in law enforcement at the Anaheim City Hall Council Chambers. UCI Law students enrolled in “Pushing the AI Frontier: It’s Impact on Law, Policy and the Legal Profession,” a continuation of the spring 2019 course, helped plan the hearing. Read more >
  • In August 2019, UCI Law held an invite-only leadership conference on the future of artificial intelligence in the public and private sector of the legal profession, policy and regulation. 
  • In October 2019, UCI Law hosted the Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice Forum. The forum included a panel discussion focused on the California State Bar's Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services recently proposed tentative recommendations to bridge the access to justice gap. Read more about the forum > 
  • UCI Law students in the course, “Pushing the AI Frontier: Its Impact on Law, Policy and the Legal Profession” have partnered with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing to develop the California New-Parent Leave Rights App. The app aims to demystify the confusing array of legal rights and obligations that new parents have in CA regarding job-protected leave from work. This project began in January 2020. 
  • In January 2021, Prof. Burk and Prof. Lerner joined the affiliated faculty of the new UCI Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical and Accessible Technologies, based in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. Read more about the center >

Faculty Speaking Engagements

  • April 29, 2021: Presenter, Automated Legal Guidance and Taxation, Institute of Tax Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London School of Law, London, UK 
  • April 21, 2021: Presenter, Automated Legal Guidance (with Leigh Osofsky), Faculty Workshop, Perspectives on Taxation Presentation Series, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN, Online Presentation 
  • Oct. 28, 2020:  Presenter, Automated Legal Guidance (with Leigh Osofsky), Orange County Bar Association, Business & Corporate Law Section, Irvine, CA, Online Presentation
  • Aug. 19, 2020:  Presenter, Automated Legal Guidance (with Leigh Osofsky), Intellectual Life Workshop, University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA, Online Presentation 
  • July 9, 2020: Presenter, Automated Legal Guidance, Indiana/Leeds Summer Tax Workshop Series, Online
  • Feb. 24, 2020: Presenter, Simplexity and Automated Legal Guidance (with Leigh Osofsky), 2nd Annual UCI-A. Lavar Taylor Tax Symposium: Machine Intelligence and the Changing Nature of Tax Practice, Irvine, CA.
  • Jan. 17, 2020: Presenter, Simplexity and Automated Legal Guidance (with Leigh Osofsky), Levin College of Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 
  • Dec. 9, 2019: Presenter, Simplexity and Automated Legal Guidance (with Leigh Osofsky), Tax Policy Colloquium, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA. 
  • Dec. 3, 2019: Presenter, Simplexity and Automated Legal Guidance (with Leigh Osofsky), Tax Policy Colloquium, NYU School of Law, New York, NY. 
  • Nov. 21, 2019: Presenter, Simplexity and Automated Legal Guidance (with Leigh Osofsky), 112th Annual Conference on Taxation, National Tax Association, Tampa, FL. 
  • Nov. 14, 2019: Presenter, Simplexity and Automated Legal Guidance (with Leigh Osofsky), Tax Law Speakers Series, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA. 
  • April 10, 2019: Presenter, Simplexity: Plain Language and the Tax Law and Legal Calculators and the Tax System (with Leigh Osofsky), University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • March 25, 2019: Presenter, “Legal Calculators and the Tax System (with Leigh Osofsky)” at the Tax Policy Colloquium held at Pepperdine School of Law, Malibu, CA.
  • March 22, 2019: Presenter, “Legal Calculators and the Tax System (with Leigh Osofsky),” at the Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Tax Law and Policy Symposium held at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in Columbus, OH.
  • Nov. 27, 2020: Speaker, Why Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Is Wrong and What to Do About It, Leão Intellectual Property, Webinar
  • Nov. 14, 2019: Presenter, “Market Discipline and the Algorithmic Rule of Law,” Lecture Series on Ethics in IT: Taming the Machine, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
  • Nov. 11, 2019: Presenter, “Copyright and the Algorithmic Assemblage,” Centre for Information and Innovation Law, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Oct. 25, 2019: Presenter, “Algorithmic Legal Metrics,” European Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Sept. 13, 2019: Presenter, “Copyright and the Algorithmic Assemblage,” Conference on Data Power: Global In/securities, Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
  • Aug, 27, 2019: Presenter, “AI Patents and the Self-Assembling Machine,” 2019 Congress of the International Association for Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property, Vanderbilt University School of Law, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Aug. 6, 2019, Presenter, “Legal Implications of Artificial Intelligence,” Anthem Digital Leadership Retreat, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California.
  • June 22, 2019: Presenter, “Copyright and the Algorithmic Assemblage,” 4th Annual Copyright Scholar’s Roundtable, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • May 10, 2019: Presenter, “Algorithmic Legal Metrics,” Life Science Law DK seminar, Advokatfirma Bech-Bruun, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • April 6, 2019: Presenter, “Copyright and the Algorithmic Assemblage,” Information Society Project conference on (Im)perfect Enforcement, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • March 2020: Presenter, Biodiversity Conservation and Biotechnology, Extinction: Solutions for Bringing Species Back from the Brink, UCI, Irvine, CA
  • Oct. 25, 2019: Presenter, Biodiversity Conservation as a Wicked Problem, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN
  • April 22, 2019: Presenter, Reframing Conservation Law and Management in the Anthropocene, Current Issues in Air Quality, Climate and Energy, Depts. of Chemistry & Mechanical Engineering, UCI, Irvine, CA
  • Jan. 2, 2020: Presenter, “Digital Transformation and Corporate Law”, Rising Tensions Among Corporate Stakeholders, 2020 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
  • Dec. 12, 2019: Presenter, "Lessons from Corporate Personhood for the Intelligence Age," San Diego Blockchain Forum, UCSD Rady School of Management, La Jolla, CA
  • Oct. 2019: Presenter, "Lessons from Corporate Personhood for the Intelligence Age," Cryptoeconomic Systems Summit, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  • Oct. 2018: Presenter, Empathy in Electronic Culture, LASER talk, Beall Center, Irvine, CA.
  • Aug. 16, 2019: Presenter, leadership summit on AI and emerging technology, Irvine, CA.
  • Aug. 7, 2019: Presenter, faculty workshop on artificial intelligence, Irvine, CA.
  • Feb. 7, 2020: Presenter, “Is Current Tort Doctrine Adequate to Address the Emerging Opportunities and Problems Raised by New Technology and Artificial Intelligence?,” New Frontiers in Torts: The Challenges of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA
  • Jan. 21, 2021: Speaker, Legal Tech & Access to Justice: Thoughts from the Estate Planning Context, Cyberjustice Web-Conference Series, Cyberjustice Laboratory, Online
  • Feb. 15, 2019: Presenter, AI, Apps, and the Art & Science of Lawyering, UCI Socio-Legal Studies Workshop.
  • Feb. 8, 2019: Invited Presenter, The Future is Bright Complicated: AI, Apps, and Access to Justice, Symposium: The Future of Lawyers in the Age of AI, The University of Oklahoma College of Law.