Law, AI & Big Data

Course Description

This course will track the development of AI and Big Data methodologies in law and legal reasoning. On that backdrop, we will consider how AI and Big Data can solve and cause legal problems, and how best to regulate in this area. The course will engage in an interdisciplinary, pluralist approach to these issues.

Current and Previous Instructors

Key to Codes in Course Descriptions

P: Prerequisite
C: Prerequisite or Concurrent Requirement
R: Recommended Prior or Concurrent Course

Currently Scheduled Sections

CRN: 93538

  • Fall '26
  • 3
  • Tues: 10:55-12:55

    Day

  • Guha Krishnamurthi

  • 0 openings. (Limit 14).

May satisfy Advanced Writing Requirement

  • 578T

  • Arvind Narayanan (Author), Sayash Kapoor (Author) , AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference , Princeton University Press , 2024

    ISBN: 978-0691249131


    Eliezer Yudkowsky (Author), Nate Soares (Author) , If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All , Little Brown , 2025

    ISBN: 978-0316595643


    Cathy O'Neil (Author) , Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy , Crown , 2016

    ISBN: 978-0553418811