Discovery practice and laws related to electronically stored information in litigation.

The course will offer an Introduction to data-driven decision making. It will compare artificial and human intelligence, considering issues of accuracy, transparency, fairness, bias, and legal regulation. Students will explore the use of data analytics in a variety of contexts, including the sentencing of criminal defendants, assessing creditworthiness, hiring employees, and forecasting judicial decisions. This course is designed to be fully accessible to those with no prior background in statistics or coding.

Survey of the areas of the law with existing or potential application to the internet and computers and how changes in the information environment affect law and its application. Areas of law include jurisdiction, contract law, intellectual property law, criminal law, and constitutional law.

Cyber threats are a global problem challenging all areas of business, and attorneys must be able to advise and defend clients from these threats. Criminal lawyers must be fluent in how new technologies work and how they impact investigations. In this course, students will learn how these new cyber threats and emerging technologies are challenging attorneys across the country. The course will prepare students to think as lawyers when confronting these threats. Course topics will include computer hacking, spamming, spear phishing, Internet fraud and social engineering, cyberstalking, and the rising use of computers and social media in violent crimes.

Covering blockchains, cryptoassets and related topics in the FinTech area. Blockchains are incorruptible decentralized digital ledgers maintained by a distributed network of computers. All transactions on a blockchain are recorded chronologically and publicly. Cryptoassets are digital assets that use blockchains and cryptography to regulate the creation of new units, verify transactions, and secure the transactions without the intervention of any middleman. Will address whether whether governments have the power to regulate blockchains and what is the right balance of regulation to protect the public but encourage innovation.

This class surveys a variety of current topics lying at the intersection of law, science, and technology. During the course of the semester each student will develop their own thesis relating to some specific issue arising out of the interaction of law, science, and technology.

Problem-method study of choice of entity and various other legal issues and planning challenges in forming a closely held business entity and in private and public financing of an existing enterprise. The course includes practical training from drafting organizational documents to conducting simulated client interviews and providing written advice concerning hypothetical transaction.

Students learn to prepare transactional documents including, for example, confidentiality agreements, consulting agreements, employment agreements, technology licensing agreements.

Preparation of compliance-related documents to support businesses in highly-regulated industries like health care, higher education, and business and financial institutions. Students draft a portfolio of documents— for example, policies and procedures, and codes of conduct—common to corporate compliance programs.

A companion laboratory to the required Business Associations course, students are trained in counseling clients and negotiating business formation, dissolution, and liability issues as well as drafting appropriate documents.