First Readings for Spring 2025
This may not be an exclusive listing of all faculty members’ first assignment and class meeting notices. If you do not see a class that you are in listed below, it may be necessary to check with the faculty member.
Dates for Spring 2025
- The form for submitting assignments will be activated on Monday, December 9, 2024.
- Assignments will begin to be posted Monday, December 9, 2024.
- The form for submitting assignments will be deactivated on Monday, February 3, 2025.
- Assignments will be removed on Monday, February 3, 2025.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, LAW, ETHICS, AND POLICY (LAWS 851 §001)
Instructor Name(s)
Sella-Villa
Textbook Information
There are three (3) primary texts for the course. The one you were instructed to purchase is:
- AI Snake Oil, by Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor (2024) [Snake Oil]. Either the tangible or electronic version are acceptable for this course.
The other two texts are available online through the law library. Accordingly, you will have to be logged into the University’s systems to access these books online. They are:
- Business Data Ethics: Emerging Models for Governing AI and Advanced Analytics, by Dennis Hirsch, Timothy Bartley, Aravind Chandrasekaran, Davon Norris, Srinivasan Parthasarathy& Piers Norris Turner (2023) [Hirsch et al.] – available here.
- AI Ethics, by Mark Coeckelbergh (2020) [Coeckelbergh] – available here.
General Assignment Information
Coeckelbergh, pgs. 63-74
Snake Oil, pgs. 21-26, Chpt. 7
Hirsch et al., Chpt. 4
Kenneth W. Abbott & Duncan Snidal, Hard and Soft Law in International Governance” 54 Int’l Org. 421 (2000), pgs. 421-24
(When reading this section of the article please imagine the discussion of hard and soft law in the context of “artificial intelligence technology providers,” instead of international actors.)