Held at UCLA School of Law on April 15, 2016, Imagining the Legal Landscape was a day of vibrant, wide-ranging, interdisciplinary discussion about the future of law and technology. Each participant prepared a short essay imagining a future scientific or technological change that will have meaningful legal implications by 2030. Participants then discussed these future issues together throughout the day. Topics ranged from big data to robotic police, from offspring selection to virtual reality, from perfect surveillance to total life recording devices.
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Stanford Technology Law Review, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-16
Program on Understanding Law, Science & Evidence (PULSE)
PULSE explores the complex and diverse connections between law and science, technology and evidence to better understand how these areas of knowledge influence law and policy making.
Grounded in interdisciplinary research and original programming, PULSE gives students the opportunity to explore critical issues including the challenges and opportunities for the use of forensic science evidence; how psychological research on implicit bias may affect legal understandings of discrimination; and what role scientific evidence plays in disputes over climate change. Student-focused colloquia, conferences, lectures and workshops by eminent scholars also inform the PULSE arena of study.
Artificial intelligence, sophisticated algorithms and other rapid advances in technology are changing how people and institutions engage with each other and raise numerous vexing issues for application of the law. UCLA Law's Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, a collaboration with UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, explores the impact of advances on privacy, justice and the law.