- Confidentiality of AI Conversations: Protecting Self-Represented Litigants Who Use ChatGPT for Legal Advice
By: Anoo Dinesh Vyas
When a layperson uses ChatGPT to obtain feedback on a legal matter, attorney-client privilege may not apply, as ChatGPT is not a lawyer, much less a human. Further, while lawyers are entitled to protection for their opinion work-product, it is not clear whether self-represented litigants are entitled to the same protection. Additionally, ...
- Fossil-Fueled Failure: How Nonrenewable Energy Policy Will Cost the United States the AI Race
By: Kayla Landeros
This Article examines the structure and regulation of the United States electricity industry in light of accelerating electricity demand driven by Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and digitalization. It argues that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and related executive actions have exacerbated existing structural weaknesses within the nation’s energy governance framework by repealing renewable ...
- Juror Contact in the Digital Age: The LinkedIn Problem
By: Drew Thornley
This Article examines an evolving dispute in professional responsibility: whether a lawyer makes a prohibited communication when viewing a juror’s LinkedIn account. When one LinkedIn user views another’s profile, the platform automatically notifies the profile owner and may include the viewer’s identity. Ethics rules are currently divided on whether or not this ...
- The Myth of Sufficient Technological Barriers: Reevaluating the “Gates-Up-or-Down” Analogy in Data Scraping
By: Yucen Zhong
In Van Buren v. United States, the Supreme Court adopted a “gates-up-or-down” analogy from physical trespass law to define “authorization” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Despite historical shifts in judicial interpretation, courts have recently relied on this binary framework to interpret authorization as it applies to online trespass. But courts ...
- Falling Flat: Why AI Cannot Free Melodies from Copyright Protection with “All the Music” as an Example
By: Hayley Huber
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to surprise us with its humanlike abilities, it raises the question of whether AI-created music can or should be afforded legal protection. Particularly, how should copyright law treat melodies produced by an AI designed to algorithmically generate every possible melody? This article seeks to answer that question, ultimately ...
