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.

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.

In this course, you will learn the main principles, concepts, tools, and skills of negotiations and bargaining. These will not only help you develop a good understanding of the subject but will also equip you with what is needed to be a “successful” negotiator. We will give primary attention to negotiation and bargaining in legal contexts.

A study of insurance contracts and insurance law. Topics covered include: the nature of insurance, insurable interests, persons and interests protected, contractual obligations of the insured and insurer, the claims process, bad faith, and subrogation. We will explore insurance contracts from the point of negotiation and execution through the claims process, settlement and dispute resolution.

An introduction to the regulatory compliance and risk management issues affecting patient safety and quality improvement.

An introduction to fundamental technology concepts for compliance officers, risk-manager, and others working in technology-intensive, regulated areas, including cybersecurity, privacy, AI, and intellectual property.

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.

This course introduces students to key concepts in law of patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyright. Special focus is given to risk management techniques to protect a company’s intellectual property, including monitoring for potential infringements, addressing suspected infringements, IP licensing, non-compete agreements and non-disclosure agreements.

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).

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!