Insights
Academic publications, books, and practical writing from Tom Dunlap and Josh Fairfield on AI adoption, professional responsibility, and governance for legal teams, enterprises, and mission-driven organizations.
Josh Fairfield argues the real danger of AI is not a machine uprising but systems that are competent at human tasks yet indifferent to human welfare, eroding the shared understanding that law depends on.
Read More →Josh Fairfield shows how AI systems can learn to target vulnerable groups and conceal discrimination, defeating the detection that anti-discrimination law assumes is possible.
Read More →A foundational text in AI law and policy examining how legal systems can respond to technologies that outpace regulatory frameworks.
Read More →An examination of how digital platforms erode property rights and personal autonomy, questions that have only grown more urgent with the rise of generative AI.
Read More →A practical guide to the patchwork of new state AI laws taking effect in 2026 (California, Colorado, and Illinois), and the concrete steps businesses should take to inventory their AI use, map their jurisdictional exposure, and build compliance infrastructure before enforcement ramps up.
Read More →Tom Dunlap makes the case that AI is now a competitive necessity for legal practice, examining how it is reshaping real workflows, pressuring the billable hour, and changing how associates are trained, while verification and professional judgment remain essential.
Read More →Tom Dunlap traces the global split over whether an AI can be named as a patent inventor (rejected in the US, UK, and EU but accepted in Australia and South Africa) and, drawing on his own inventorship litigation experience, predicts that AI tools will soon meet the legal definition of inventor and force the law to adapt.
Read More →We publish infrequently and only when we have something worth saying.