Scholarship and Research
UCI Law is poised to tackle some of the most significant challenges facing the legal profession and society as artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies rapidly change the world. Our award-winning, interdisciplinary and diverse faculty is up to the task. The UCI Law faculty is the top ranked public law school in the country—No. 9 overall—in academic impact. We are thought leaders concerning the moral, ethical and legal implications of emerging technologies in areas ranging from domestic abuse to the environment, health policy and tax to implicit bias, criminal justice, immigration, and international human rights.
Learn more about our research and scholarship related to emerging technologies.
Research Grants & Fellowships
- Prof. Burk was named a Fall 2019 Senior Visiting Fellow of the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin, Germany. In 2017, he was named the Fullbright US-UK Cybersecurity Fellow at the Digital Ethics Lab at the Oxford Internet Institute in Oxford, UK.
- Prof. Talesh is part of a UCI research team that received a $1.4M grant from the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation to examine the role of cyber insurance and how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies impact cyber security. He also was selected as a Faculty Innovation Fellow by UCI Beall Applied Innovation, a two-year appointment allowing Prof. Talesh to examine the role of cyber insurance and its impact on cybersecurity.
- UCI Law was awarded $170,000 from the Knight Foundation to support two research projects on the destabilizing effects of digital speech on American democracy and models of self-regulation and multi-stakeholder governance of content moderation on digital platforms, led by Prof. Hasen and Prof. Kaye.
- UCI Law received a grant from the UCI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to bolster the law school's ongoing efforts to develop curriculum that incorporates AI and emerging technology issues. UCI Law faculty who are grant recipients include: Alex Camacho, Summer Kim, Omri Marian, Gregory Shaffer, Ken Simons, Jane Stoever, Emily Taylor Poppe and Chris Whytock.
Recent & Forthcoming Faculty Publications
- Joshua D. Blank & Leigh Osofsky, Automated Legal Guidance, 106 Cornell L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2020)
- Joshua D. Blank & Leigh Osofsky, Legal Calculators and the Tax System, 15 Ohio St. Tech. L.J. __ (forthcoming, 2019).
- Dan L. Burk, Algorithmic Fair Use, 86 U. Chi. L. Rev. 307 (2019).
- Alejandro E. Camacho, Biodiversity Conservation as a Wicked Problem, 73 Vand. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020).
- Alejandro E. Camacho, Wildlife laws aren't ready for the return of extinct species, AXIOS (June 22, 2017).
- Alejandro E. Camacho, Going the Way of the Dodo: De-Extinction, Dualisms, and Reframing Conservation, 92 Wash. U. L. Rev. 849-906 (2015) (reprinted in David L. Callies & J.B. Ruhl, eds., Land Use & Env’t L. Rev. 319-378 (Thomson Reuters 2016-2017); 46 Envtl. L. Rep. 10701 (2016)).
- David Kaye, Report on Artificial Intelligence and Freedom of Opinion and Expression, UN Doc. A/73/348 (2018).
- Omri Y. Marian, New Technologies and the Evolution of Tax Compliance, 39 Va. Tax. Rev. 287 (2020) (with J. Alm, J. Beebe, M. Kirsch, and J. Soled).
- Omri Y. Marian, Blockchain Havens and the Need for Their Internationally-Coordinated Regulation, 20 N.C. J. of L. & Tech. 529 (2019).
- Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (2019).
- Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Scripts: What to Do When Big Bad Companies Won’t Negotiate, in The Negotiator’s Desk Reference (eds. Christopher Honeyman & Andrea Kupfer Schneider) (2017).
- Carrie Menkel-Meadow, ‘Is ODR ADR? Reflections of an ADR Founder from 15th ODR Conference,’ in International Journal on Online Dispute Resolution 2016 (2016).
- Jane Stoever, "Gaming, Virtual Reality, and Future Frontiers in Gender-based Violence Prevention on College Campuses" (work in progress)
- Shauhin Talesh, Data Breach, Privacy, and Cyber Insurance: How Insurance Companies Act as “Compliance Managers” for Businesses, 43 Law & Social Inquiry 417-440 (2018).
- Shauhin Talesh, Insurance Companies as Corporate Regulators: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, 66 DePaul L. Rev. 463-502 (2017).
- Emily S. Taylor Poppe, The Future is Bright Complicated: AI, Apps, and Access to Justice, 72 Okla. L. Rev. 185 (2019) (invited symposium, “Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”)
- Gender Data in the Automated Administrative State, 124 Columbia Law Review __ (forthcoming 2024)
- Forward: Framing Managerialism as an Object of Study and Strategic Displacement, 86 Law & Contemporary Problems __ (forthcoming 2023) (with Julie Cohen)
- Policing Queer Sexuality, 121 Michigan Law Review __ (forthcoming 2023)
- Manufactured Uncertainty in Constitutional Litigation, 91 Fordham Law Review 2249 (2023)