Faculty News

Professor Peter Lee participated in a recent roundtable hosted by Politico on financial fraud and cybercrime. The roundtable gathered representatives from the technology industry, law enforcement, government, and academia to address the rise of technology-based scams and other cybercrime. Professor Lee spoke about the role of AI-based technologies in both facilitating fraud and detecting it, and the need to consider greater regulation to stem cybercrime.

Professor Peter Lee recently presented two papers at faculty workshops in Hong Kong. At the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, he presented an article entitled “Synthetic Data and the Future of AI.” The article, which was recently published in the Cornell Law Review, explores the emergence of synthetic data used to train machine learning (ML) models and ways to enhance the development of such data.

Professor Peter Lee recently presented an article entitled “Synthetic Data and the Future of AI” at faculty workshops at Seoul National University School of Law and Korea University School of Law. The article explores the use of synthetic words, images, and other data to train machine learning (ML) models and ways to ensure the robust, transparent, and distributed development of such data.

Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin joined other immigration law experts for a June 30 webinar, “The History of U.S. Immigration.”

The University of Houston Law Center hosted the event, which provided context for today’s immigration policy. 

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Professor Christopher Elmendorf spoke to The Economist for a June 19 story about how strongly Democratic cities in the United States are not well positioned to withstand President Donald Trump targeting them over immigration policies.

Noted journalist Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) relied on Professor Eric Fish’s scholarship in his July 21 article in The Atlantic on the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center in Florida and other ICE detention facilities in the works as part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.

Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin and Albany Law School Professor Emeritus Paul Finkelman spoke at a July 23 webinar on birthright citizenship based on their 2021 UC Davis Law Review article.

Professor Kevin R. Johnson spoke to the Los Angeles Times for a June 23 story about the Trump administration suing Texas and Kentucky to end laws allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition, and asking whether California will be next.

Professor Kevin R. Johnson talked to Capital & Main on May 1 about the long-term impact of recent Trump administration actions that have included detaining international students on dubious legal grounds and threatening to suspend the visas of others.