August 2024 Course List

This four-day intensive course explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and intellectual property law, focusing on the legal, ethical, and practical implications of AI-generated content. Students learn about the current state of AI technology, with a focus on tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E, and how they impact copyright, patent, and trademark law. Through hands-on exercises, students create AI-generated products and apply intellectual property law principles to real-world scenarios.

True or false – “artificial intelligence will make organizations more productive, innovative, competitive, and efficient. But the law will struggle to keep pace, and sophisticated and forward-thinking legal counsel are needed to navigate this nascent legal environment.” If you answered “true,” keep reading! In this class, you’ve been engaged as the Company’s newest General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer to assess the Company’s proposed uses of artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making for legal compliance and to mitigate risk. We’ll dive into algorithms and data sets, play with large language models, explore the applicable legal and public policy environment, and develop a legal framework for assessing the Company’s plans.

This course will examine some of the core components of modern-day lawyering. In particular, the course will focus on the way ethical dilemmas are addressed by lawyers in every-day practice, as well as the major competencies that clients, employers, and the legal system need; well-being practices; and client-centered relational skills, problem-solving, and good judgment that ground each student’s responsibility to and care for the client.

This four-day intensive course considers how technology impacts the criminal liability assessment of military commander’s targeting decisions. Students will learn about autonomous and AI enabled weapons, the doctrine of command responsibility, and targeting fundamentals from the law of armed conflict. Students will consider whether an accountability regime predicated on the “reasonable person” should remain static regardless of the ratio of human vs machine generated inputs that person receives in making a decision.

Have you ever wondered where criminals get their seedy start? How the seeds of an evil idea blossom into a flower of crime? Think of this as a four-day boot camp for criminals. On day one, students create the perfect fraud scheme. On day two, they execute the scheme. On day three, they figure out how to get away with it. And on day four, they work on what to do if they have been caught. Students learn from the object lessons of the criminals – Madoff, Gru, Stanford, Megamind, even Charles Ponzi himself. Prerequisite: LAW 8341 Criminal Law. A criminal procedure course is not required but may be helpful.

Prerequisites: Criminal Law

A practical study of the typical cyber breach and the legal issues presented. Teaches students how to effectively counsel a client following a cyber breach. Students discuss the legal requirements associated and are presented with case studies to understand and explore strategies necessary to meet state and federal legal notice requirements. At the conclusion of the course, students are introduced to a new case study and present the regulatory obligations, specifically explaining how a legal cyber coach should respond to the incident.

This course will expose law students to actual civil jury trials as they are currently conducted in the District Courts of the State of Texas. It is designed to practically apply more theoretically-based classes (such as Civil Procedure, Torts, and Evidence). Particular emphasis will be placed on the use of expert witnesses, their examination and cross-examination, the use of expert reports, and dealing with expert testimony in closing arguments. Prerequisite: Evidence