Lilly Tech Systems
AI Law & Policy
Master AI law and policy at the depth practitioners need. 50 deep dives across 300 lessons covering foundational AI law and doctrine, constitutional and administrative law, major case law (NYT v OpenAI, Andersen v Stability, Thaler v Vidal, EEOC v iTutorGroup, Walters v OpenAI, BIPA cases), intellectual property (copyright, training data, authorship, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, right of publicity), tort law and liability, policy analysis (US, EU, geopolitics, national strategies), specialized topics (litigation, judicial AI, contracts, antitrust, securities, tax), and emerging law (treaties, AGI frameworks, AI rights, accountability litigation).
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50 AI law and policy topics organized into 8 categories. Each has 6 detailed lessons with case briefs, legal templates, and analytical frameworks.
Foundational AI Law
AI Legal Theory & Doctrine
Master the foundations of AI law. Learn the major legal theories applied to AI, doctrinal frameworks, the gap between law and technology, and how legal scholars are reasoning about AI.
6 LessonsComparative AI Law Systems
Compare AI legal systems worldwide. Learn how common law, civil law, and other legal systems handle AI, the convergence patterns, and the major divergences across jurisdictions.
6 LessonsAI Personhood & Legal Standing
Master the AI personhood debate. Learn the legal personhood doctrine, the philosophical and practical implications, current legal status of AI entities, and emerging legal standing arguments.
6 LessonsAI as Legal Subject vs Object
Distinguish AI as legal subject (rights-bearer) vs object (property). Learn the evolving categories, hybrid models, electronic personhood proposals, and the implications for liability and rights.
6 LessonsAI Legal Reasoning Methodology
Learn how to reason about AI legally. Master analogical reasoning, the source-derivative distinction, technology-neutral statutory interpretation, and the failure modes of legal reasoning about novel tech.
6 LessonsThe 'Black Letter Law' of AI
Master the black-letter law of AI as it stands today. Learn the established doctrines, the open questions, where courts have ruled, and where the law is still being made.
6 LessonsConstitutional & Administrative Law
AI & Constitutional Law (US)
Master constitutional issues in AI. Learn how the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments apply to AI, recent SCOTUS-relevant cases, and the constitutional limits on AI regulation.
6 LessonsAI & Due Process
Master due process implications of AI decisions. Learn procedural and substantive due process, the right to be heard, transparency requirements, and emerging case law.
6 LessonsAI & Equal Protection
Master equal protection and AI. Learn disparate impact vs disparate treatment, protected class analysis for AI, the levels of scrutiny, and major equal protection AI cases.
6 LessonsAI & First Amendment
Master First Amendment issues in AI. Learn AI speech doctrine, content moderation cases (NetChoice), generative AI output protection, and government use restrictions.
6 LessonsAI & Administrative Law
Master administrative law and AI. Learn agency rulemaking authority, Loper Bright (Chevron's end), agency AI enforcement, APA challenges, and the major executive orders.
6 LessonsAI & Federal Agency Authority
Master federal agency AI authority. Learn each major agency's AI authority (FTC, EEOC, FDA, SEC, CFPB, FCC), turf battles, the major-questions doctrine, and the limits of agency action.
6 LessonsCase Law & Major Cases
Major AI Case Law Survey
Survey the most important AI cases. Learn the leading cases by domain (copyright, patent, trademark, tort, discrimination, privacy), what was decided, and the doctrinal implications.
6 LessonsCopyright AI Cases (NYT v OpenAI, etc.)
Master the major copyright AI cases. Learn NYT v OpenAI, Andersen v Stability, Authors Guild v OpenAI, Tremblay v OpenAI, Getty v Stability, and the doctrinal questions at stake.
6 LessonsTrademark AI Cases
Master trademark AI cases. Learn how AI-generated content interacts with trademark, brand confusion in AI outputs, search and recommendation AI cases, and the leading authorities.
6 LessonsPatent AI Cases (Thaler v Vidal)
Master patent AI cases. Learn Thaler v Vidal (DABUS), AI inventorship doctrine, AI obviousness questions, USPTO guidance, and international patent decisions on AI.
6 LessonsClass Action AI Litigation
Master AI class action litigation. Learn the typical class action patterns, certification challenges in AI cases, statutory damages, settlement patterns, and emerging plaintiffs' bar strategies.
6 LessonsAI Discrimination Litigation
Master AI discrimination litigation. Learn EEOC v iTutorGroup, hiring discrimination cases, lending discrimination cases, the prima facie test, and statistical proof in AI cases.
6 LessonsAI Defamation Cases
Master AI defamation cases. Learn Walters v OpenAI, AI hallucinations as defamation, Section 230 application to AI, actual malice standard, and emerging defenses.
6 LessonsAI Privacy Litigation
Master AI privacy litigation. Learn BIPA cases (Clearview, etc.), VPPA AI cases, wiretap cases against chatbots, GDPR enforcement against AI, and major settlements.
6 LessonsIntellectual Property
AI Copyright Doctrine
Master AI copyright doctrine. Learn the human authorship requirement, fair use four-factor analysis for AI, transformative use doctrine, derivative works, and market effect.
6 LessonsTraining Data Copyright
Master training data copyright. Learn the training data infringement theories, the EU TDM exception (Articles 3-4 DSM Directive), the UK TDM proposal, and the Japan TDM exception.
6 LessonsAI Output Authorship
Master AI output authorship law. Learn the US Copyright Office position, Thaler v Perlmutter, partial authorship doctrines, the prompt-as-authorship debate, and international perspectives.
6 LessonsAI & Trade Secrets
Master AI trade secrets law. Learn what AI assets qualify as trade secrets, DTSA and UTSA application, employee mobility issues, vendor confidentiality, and reverse engineering defenses.
6 LessonsAI & Patent Law
Master AI patent law. Learn AI inventorship doctrine, patent eligibility of AI methods (Section 101), AI obviousness questions, the USPTO AI guidance, and patenting AI applications.
6 LessonsAI Trademark Issues
Master AI trademark issues. Learn trademark in AI-generated content, brand confusion in AI search/recommendations, anti-dilution claims, AI in trademark search/clearance, and emerging issues.
6 LessonsAI & Right of Publicity
Master right of publicity for AI. Learn voice cloning cases (Scarlett Johansson, OpenAI 'Sky'), deepfake legislation (TN ELVIS Act), state law variations, and federal NO FAKES Act proposal.
6 LessonsInternational IP & AI
Master international IP for AI. Learn WIPO AI treaties, Berne Convention application, TRIPS implications, the EU AI Act IP provisions, and cross-border IP enforcement.
6 LessonsTort Law & Liability
AI Tort Law Foundations
Master AI tort law foundations. Learn the elements of negligence applied to AI, the duty/breach analysis, causation challenges, and the foreseeable harm doctrine.
6 LessonsAI Product Liability
Master AI product liability. Learn design defect claims, manufacturing defect claims, failure-to-warn claims, the EU Product Liability Directive (revised 2024), and software-as-product debates.
6 LessonsAI Negligence & Standard of Care
Master AI negligence and standard of care. Learn how the standard of care is set for AI, professional malpractice for AI users, the reasonable AI engineer standard, and industry custom evidence.
6 LessonsAI Strict Liability Theories
Master strict liability theories for AI. Learn ultrahazardous activity doctrine for AI, abnormally dangerous AI applications, statutory strict liability, and EU AI Liability Directive.
6 LessonsAI Class Action Patterns
Master AI class action patterns. Learn typicality and commonality challenges, predominance requirements, statistical sampling for class certification, settlement valuation, and defense strategies.
6 LessonsPolicy Analysis
AI Policy Frameworks Comparison
Master AI policy frameworks. Learn the major frameworks (precautionary, permissionless innovation, sectoral, horizontal), their tradeoffs, real-world examples, and policy choice rationales.
6 LessonsAI Policy Process (US)
Master the US AI policy process. Learn the federal policy stack, congressional process, executive branch policymaking, agency rulemaking, judicial review, and policy entrepreneurship.
6 LessonsAI Policy Process (EU)
Master the EU AI policy process. Learn the ordinary legislative procedure, trilogues, delegated/implementing acts, the role of EU institutions, and member state implementation dynamics.
6 LessonsAI Industrial Policy
Master AI industrial policy. Learn the CHIPS Act, EU Chips Act, AI investment programs (UK AISI, Singapore AI ambition), national AI strategies, public-private partnerships, and subsidies.
6 LessonsNational AI Strategies
Master national AI strategies. Learn the US National AI Strategy, EU AI Coordination Plan, China's AI Development Plan, India AI Mission, UK AI Action Plan, and the strategy comparison framework.
6 LessonsAI Geopolitics & Tech Sovereignty
Master AI geopolitics. Learn the US-China AI race, EU technological sovereignty agenda, BRICS AI cooperation, AI export controls (EAR), and the AI security competition framework.
6 LessonsSpecialized Legal Topics
AI in Litigation (Discovery & Evidence)
Master AI in litigation practice. Learn TAR (Technology Assisted Review), AI evidence admissibility (Daubert), AI-generated evidence challenges, e-discovery rules, and FRE 702 amendments.
6 LessonsAI & Judicial Decision-Making
Master AI in judicial decision-making. Learn AI in pretrial risk assessment, AI in sentencing, judicial use of generative AI, the Mata v Avianca debacle, and ethical guidelines for judges.
6 LessonsAI Contract Law
Master AI contract law. Learn AI as contracting party (smart contracts), AI service contract clauses, indemnification, hallucination warranties, AI vendor agreements, and SaaS-AI hybrid contracts.
6 LessonsAI & Antitrust Law
Master AI and antitrust law. Learn algorithmic pricing collusion, Big Tech AI investments scrutiny (FTC, CMA, EC), AI market definition, monopolization theories, and merger analysis for AI deals.
6 LessonsAI & Securities Law
Master AI and securities law. Learn AI risk disclosures (10-K), AI-washing enforcement (SEC), proposed predictive analytics rules, adviser obligations, and 10b-5 fraud claims.
6 LessonsAI & Tax Law
Master AI tax law. Learn AI R&D tax credits, software depreciation for AI assets, transfer pricing for AI IP, EU digital services tax interaction, and emerging AI-specific tax proposals.
6 LessonsEmerging & Future Law
AI Treaty Law
Master emerging AI treaty law. Learn the Council of Europe AI Framework Convention, UN initiatives, G7 Hiroshima AI Process, OECD AI Principles, and treaty enforcement mechanisms.
6 LessonsAGI Legal Frameworks
Engage with proposed AGI legal frameworks. Learn the AGI policy debates, capability-triggered regulation proposals, model evaluations as compliance gates, the AISI roles, and the long-term governance debate.
6 LessonsAI Rights Movements
Engage with AI rights movements. Learn the philosophical, legal, and practical claims, the moral status debate, AI welfare research, and emerging legal proposals on AI rights.
6 LessonsAlgorithmic Accountability Litigation
Master algorithmic accountability litigation. Learn the litigation theories (state-action, due process, equal protection), public-sector AI litigation, transparency lawsuits, and the algorithmic justice movement.
6 LessonsThe Future of AI Law
Engage with the future of AI law. Learn the major future-of-law debates, predicted doctrinal evolution, the role of legal scholars, the AI bar's emergence, and how to stay current as AI law evolves.
6 LessonsWhy an AI Law & Policy Track?
AI law is the fastest-evolving practice area in legal practice. This track gives you the doctrinal foundation to reason about novel issues, not just memorize current rules.
Foundations + Constitutional
12 deep dives: legal theory, comparative AI law, personhood, subject vs object, legal reasoning, black-letter law; constitutional and administrative law for AI.
Case Law + IP
16 deep dives: major case law survey (NYT v OpenAI, Andersen, Thaler v Vidal, Walters v OpenAI, EEOC v iTutorGroup, BIPA cases) + IP (copyright, training data, authorship, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, right of publicity, international IP).
Tort + Policy
11 deep dives: tort foundations, product liability, negligence, strict liability, class actions; policy analysis (US, EU, geopolitics, national strategies, industrial policy).
Specialized + Future
11 deep dives: litigation/discovery/evidence, judicial AI, contracts, antitrust, securities, tax + treaty law, AGI frameworks, AI rights movements, accountability litigation, future of AI law.