At the recent CodeX LLM x Law Hackathon, the clock was ticking, whiteboards were filling up, and Stanford Law students Joshua Waldman, JD ’27, and Will Dinneen, JD ’28, were feverishly using AI to take copyright infringement search to the next level.

Created with teammates Chris Um of ...Cornell and Dhanin Wongpanich of UC Berkeley, the prize-winning tool they dubbed “Warhol” goes beyond “does an image look similar?” to ask whether it might raise a real infringement problem. Read more: https://brnw.ch/21x2jR8

The Stanford Law School Law & Policy Lab, Heterodox Academy, and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society will co-sponsor a panel discussion on Monday May 11 from noon to 2 p.m. PT.

The panel will explore the Trump administration's efforts to impose conditions for federal ...funding and its use of other mechanisms to restrict academic freedom, particularly in the conduct of research.

RSVP: https://brnw.ch/21x2ic1

AI is moving quickly into politics, government, and democratic life. A new volume co-edited by Stanford Law School’s Nathaniel Persily, JD ’98, examines what that means for campaigns, public administration, national security, public opinion, and the future of political science.

...Persily, a leading scholar on technology regulation and the law of democracy, co-edited Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Political Science with New York University professor Joshua A. Tucker. The volume brings together more than 50 contributors and is now available in draft form on the American Political Science Association website, ahead of publication by Cambridge University Press.

Read more: https://brnw.ch/21x2hoP

May the Torts be With You.

Stanford Law School marked May 4 with a law-meets-lightsabers panel that could only happen when brilliant legal minds also happen to be major Star Wars nerds.

During “The Law of Star Wars,” Professors Mark Lemley and Liz Hidalgo Reese, along with ...Nari Ely, JD ’16, senior counsel at Epic Games, took a room full of students through a mini master class on the legal questions at play in a galaxy far, far away.

Read the article: https://brnw.ch/21x2fbz

Lemley promised the presentation would cover “pretty much all of the first-year curriculum,” and the panel delivered, taking on the thorny question of who owns R2-D2 and C-3PO, Han Solo’s self-defense claim, Death Star liability, and other matters of urgent galactic importance.

Reese, who teaches federal Indian law, added another layer, explaining that Native communities’ appreciation for Star Wars is very much “a thing.” Its themes of empire, resistance, oppression, and interconnected spiritual life have made the films especially resonant in Indian Country, she said, even inspiring a Navajo-language version of “Episode IV — A New Hope.”

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