University Center to Study Relationship Between Law, Tech
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln recently announced the launch of a new center within the law school focused on studying the evolving relationship between technology and law.
The Nebraska Governance and Technology Center will work across the business, engineering, journalism and law schools to bring together students from an array of disciplines to tackle issues that arise when technology and legal policy fail to align.
“The impact of new technologies ripples across multiple fileds,” said founding director and law professor Gus Hurwitz. “The traditional, siloed model of study is insufficient to fully grapple with them.”
Since its inception, involved students and faculty have begun work on the podcast “Tech Refactored,” which will discuss the relationship between technology and agriculture and the “rural-digital divide.” They are also working on a variety of projects regarding the relationship between technology and media.
“Today’s increasingly programmable technologies can change rapidly and are limited more by human imagination than by the natural world,” Hurwitz said. “This changes how we need to think about the law and changes the relationship between the engineers who develop new technologies, the entrepreneurs who commercialize it and the journalists who explain and contextualize it.”
The center was largely funded by a $3.5 million gift from the Menard family over a period of five years. The Charles Koch Foundation also made a considerable donation of $1.3 million.
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