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Conversations with leading experts on how law is shaping powerful new AI technology and how AI is reshaping law. Join host, Joel Cohen and brilliant guests as they explore legal battles over IP rights within AI models, autonomous AI weapons, the legal ethics of AI, regulating AI as a monopoly, and m...

Law as Code
AI Lawyer
Law as Code

Recent Episodes

March 10, 2026

Law as Code

Artificial intelligence is usually sold as productivity: faster research, faster drafting, faster answers. In this episode of New Law Order, Yale Law professor Scott Shapiro explains that the real story is power. If the law is a system for coordinating human behavior at scale, then tools that can interpret rules, test edge cases, and generate persuasive legal analysis may change who can navigate the system—and who gets steamrolled by it. The conversation also explores a darker symmetry: the sam
Oct. 21, 2025

AI Is Eroding the Right to Privacy

Guest: Prof. Daniel Solove, George Washington University Law School. Artificial intelligence is radically shifting how our personal information is collected, shared and analyzed — and our traditional privacy laws are scrambling to keep up. In this episode we sit down with privacy scholar Prof. Solove, a leading expert on privacy law, to explore how AI is exposing the limits of the American right to privacy. From the third‑party doctrine to the landmark decision in Carpenter v. United States, So
Jan. 10, 2025

AI Market Domination and the Natural Monopoly Problem

Guest: Prof. Tejas Narechania, Berkeley Law School. This episode of the AI Lawyer Podcast explores the legal challenges of AI market concentration and competition with Professor Narechania, an expert in telecommunications law and antitrust policy. As the costs of developing advanced AI models rise, Professor Narechania examines whether AI is headed toward a natural monopoly and what that means for fairness, innovation, and legal accountability. Will a small group of companies dominate AI devel
Dec. 18, 2024

"A Perfect Evidentiary Storm" – Deepfakes and AI in the Courtroom

Guest: Judge Paul Grimm, Duke Law Professor and former U.S. District Judge. This episode of the AI Lawyer Podcast explores the “perfect evidentiary storm” created by generative AI and deepfakes in the courtroom. Judge Grimm, a leading expert on evidence and artificial intelligence, unpacks the legal, ethical, and practical challenges of AI in the justice system. How can courts manage audio and video deepfakes that appear undeniably real? What are the dangers of relying on "black-box" AI system
Dec. 3, 2024

Fully Autonomous Weapons of War

Guest: Prof. Mitt Regan, Georgetown Law School. As autonomous weapons become a reality on the modern battlefield, their ethical and legal implications are sparking intense debate. Georgetown Law Professor Mitt Regan dives into the complexities of AI-enabled weapon systems, exploring how these technologies challenge the principles of international humanitarian law (IHL). With conflicts in Ukraine and Israel showcasing the rapid deployment of AI-driven military tools, Professor Regan unpacks the
Sept. 18, 2024

Ingesting Data, Igniting Lawsuits: AI’s Copyright Dilemma

Guest: Prof. Shyam Balganesh, Columbia Law School. The growing integration of AI models across industries has ignited fierce legal battles over the training of large language models (LLMs) and the use of copyrighted material. Columbia Law Professor Shyam Balganesh sits down with AI Lawyer to unpack the intricate legal questions surrounding AI and copyright, highlighting how LLMs depend on extensive datasets, often incorporating copyrighted works, to generate their outputs. High-profile cases, s