Margaret Hu releases leading casebook on AI and law
The following story originally appeared on the W&M Law School website. – Ed.
Margaret Hu, the Davison M. Douglas Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School, has published “AI Law and Policy,” a casebook exploring legal issues surrounding artificial intelligence. Released by Aspen Publishing, the 1,110-page book quickly became the #1 best-selling new release in Amazon’s “Internet and Computer Law” category.
The casebook, now adopted in law school courses, provides a survey of law and policy challenges introduced by artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies. It features primary legal materials across domains such as data privacy, cybersecurity and national security.
According to Aspen Publishing, the approach “offers key primary source materials that tell a story: why the history of AI law and policy at the nascent stages is coterminous with how we should struggle with the project of AI law and policy over its longer trajectory.”
Hu, a former DOJ policy counsel, drew on years of research and government experience to develop the text. She has testified before Congress on AI regulation and directs the Digital Democracy Lab at William & Mary. She is also a research affiliate with the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State University, and faculty affiliate with the Global Research Institute at William & Mary and William & Mary’s new school of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics. Her research interests include the intersection of AI and national security, cybersurveillance and civil rights.
“AI Law and Policy” is available in hardback and digital formats via Aspen Publishing and Amazon.
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