AI Tools for Compliance and Contracting: An Applied, No-Code AI Lab

This hands-on, application-based course is designed to explore the use of AI in regulatory compliance and contracting.  Students will learn to design and build a series of customized, practical AI solutions to address real-world compliance  and contracting problems.  This includes identifying complex legal risk management contexts that can benefit from AI automation, grounded AI through retrieval augmented generation, and agentic AI.

AI Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance

The course focuses on AI legal risk management. Students will learn how to apply governance, risk management, and compliance ("GRC") principles and practices to AI. The first part of the course focuses on the design and implementation of governance structures to meet internal and external AI governance requirements. Governance topics include the role and duties of boards of directors in managing AI risks and disclosure requirements under Federal securities laws, as well as other Federal, state, and international disclosure and governance requirements.

Civil Litigation Fundamentals

The potential for lawsuits plays a critical role in business decisions, particularly in regulatory compliance, risk management, and contract procurement and vendor risk management. This is often especially true in highly regulated fields such as healthcare, finance, HR, cybersecurity, and supply chain management. Litigation – whether in front of administrative agencies or courts – is generally the endgame for regulatory, contractual, or other liability problems that institutions may face. This class provides students with a basic understanding of the process of civil litigation in the U.S.

Government Contracting

This course introduces students to government contracting. The course cover statutes and regulations governing the government procurement process, as well as the core contract law issues relevant to government contracting. The course will also look at the specific contracting issues related to defense contracting, including the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).

Cybercrimes*

This course introduces students to the laws and regulation governing cybercrimes. The classes focuses on various types of cybercrimes, such as identity theft, hacking, extortion and ransomware, cyberbullying, cyberterrorism, credit card fraud, non-payment/non-delivery crimes. The course will also cover the investigation and prosecution of cybercrimes, including the tools available to law enforcement, Constitutional and statutory constraints, and cross-jurisdictional and public/private cooperation and coordination.

*Course under development – Coming soon!

Data Analytics and Regulatory Compliance

A study of legal and risk management issues surrounding the use of big data analytics, machine learning and other AI technologies by regulators, business firms and other organizations. Special focus is given to issues arising in health care regulation, financial and securities regulation, and employment law—for example, health care fraud and abuse, Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering, economic sanctions, Federal securities Laws, and employment discrimination.

Cybersecurity Breach Response: Investigation, Mitigation and Remediation

This course focuses on the legal and risk management issues that arise after a cybersecurity breach.  Students will learn about different aspects on incident response, including initial internal communications and related corporate governance issues, the role played by in-house and outside counsel, forensics experts, IT staff and others in investigating the source and scope of the breach, and in mitigation and remediation of cyber breaches.