General Course Descriptions for Terms: technology
752 - Copyright Law
Copyright law structures the traditional entertainment and information industries and, increasingly, shapes technology through its regulation of digital works and software. This course explores copyright doctrine in depth alongside its real world consequences for creative production and for our daily lives. It will also contemplate emerging developments in copyright law following the Supreme Court’s recent decision on appropriation art in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the ongoing copyright debates prompted by tools like DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT.
854 - Clinical Program/ Field Placement: Legal Technology Externship
915 - SP Crim. J. Admin: Law & Forensic Science
Forensic evidence used in criminal cases has come under intense scrutiny recently because much of it never has been scientifically validated and some has been proven to be highly unreliable. More than ten years ago, the National Academy of Sciences issued a groundbreaking report concluding as much. Yet forensic “science” rarely is studied in either the law school curriculum or in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum, either at the undergraduate or graduate level. This is the first course at the University of Wisconsin—and among the first in the nation—to fill that void by bringing together law students and STEM students to examine law & forensic science.
940 - Technology Law
950 - Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Law Practice
This course is designed to introduce students to a wide range of technologies they will use as they begin their legal careers and deepen their understanding of commonly used office technologies, with an emphasis on the development of generative AI tools that enhance productivity and efficiency. The class also examines how a lawyer’s technological competency interacts with marketing, online presence, ethics, client privacy and more. Weekly instruction will involve short lectures on how legal technology is developing and used in offices, hands-on learning about existing technologies, discussion of AI development in law practice, and guest lectures from legal tech experts. Students will be expected to complete a series of learning modules outside of class via the NSLT Legal Technology Certification program on common legal technologies topics such as e-discovery, case management and trial practice tools, among others. Students will prepare two presentations for the class on emerging technologies and creating a law firm technology budget. This class is 3 credits and is a mandatory pass/fail course. The course is open for up to 30 2L or 3L students.