Building the AI Future
Kevin Frazier discusses the launch of the AI Innovation and Law Program and the release of a first-of-its-kind AI Opportunity Inventory, an online tracker for the most promising use cases of emerging AI technologies.
Read the AI Opportunity Inventory announcement.
Exploring the future of Artificial Intelligence
The AI revolution has profound implications for law, lawyers, and legal institutions—just as law has profound implications for the future path of the labs, researchers, companies, and investors who are fueling the revolution. With the entrepreneurial spirit characteristic of Austin and The University of Texas, Texas Law’s new AI Innovation and Law Program is moving in real time with novel courses, creative events, engagements with policymakers, and more.
Our Goals
Empowering the Next Generation of Lawyers
Our students will not just be ready for the impact of AI on legal practice. They’ll lead in defining that impact.
Shaping the Future of AI Policy
Our students will have unparalleled exposure to, and hands-on experience with, the critical legal and policy issues shaping AI’s development, deployment, and diffusion.
Convening for Collaborative Solutions
Leveraging our unique position amidst the vibrant Austin tech ecosystem, this program will bring together academic, industry, and policy circles with a shared interest in the development of a feasible and effective AI agenda.
Our Activities
The AI Innovation and Law Program embraces the entrepreneurial energy of Austin, UT, and the AI industry, and the result is an array of activities that blends the obvious (AI-related courses), the innovative (job fairs, writing contests), and the weird (LunchGPT anyone?).
Our Scholars
The Program is led by our inaugural AI Innovation & Law Fellow Kevin Frazier, who is a renowned figure in AI law and policy. Law School faculty associated with the Program include Bobby Chesney, Oren Bracha, John Golden, Adam Klein, Erich Schwartz, Julissa Walsh, and Melissa Wasserman.
Introducing: Scaling Laws
We are proud to introduce Scaling Laws—a weekly podcast produced in partnership with Lawfare and the Brookings Institution.
Scaling Laws will feature nuanced and timely analysis of all things AI policy, with guests including leading AI scholars such as Ethan Mollick, civil society leaders like Cassandra Madison, policy experts such as Joshua Gans, and lab officials including Anthropic’s Josh Batson. The show also will feature the “Scaling Laws Academy Series,” with deep educational dives into key AI legal issues (led by renowned scholars including Eugene Volokh, Cary Coglianese, Ryan Calo, Giovanna Massarotto, Anat Lior, Wayne Unger, and Aram Gavoor).
Find it on all major podcast platforms and the Lawfare YouTube channel.
Wes Henderson is an AI Specialist for WWT, a large tech integrator, both for AI infrastructure and solutions. As a former IP/Patent lawyer with hands-on keyboard experience and an education in AI/ML (and a current UT Life Member), he has helped deploy AI across healthcare, oil and gas, utilities, airlines, retail, and more. Join Wes Henderson and the AILP Fellowship for a discussion about how AI integration and the law intersect in the business world. Lunch will be provided. RSVP by 1/07/26.
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