Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT/12:00 PM – 1:00 pm MT/11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT
Section on Technology, Law and Legal Education
Most pro-GenAI conversations helpfully demonstrate how the technology can make legal educators’ jobs more efficient by streamlining the creation of traditional assessments and exercises. Others go slightly further by demonstrating how custom GPTs can replace human-based interactions. Few, however, have explored how educators can leverage GenAI to create new modalities for education and assessment. In this webinar, we will explore how the technology can empower educators to create engaging tools like basic video games and virtual realities. Presenters will demonstrate how these once-inaccessible tools can be created with little skill and will invite participants to reimagine their classrooms.
Shih-Chun “Steven” Chien, Associate Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
Shih-Chun “Steven” Chien is an Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law and an Affiliated Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. He teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, professional responsibility, evidence, comparative law, and empirical legal studies. His interdisciplinary research—grounded in doctrinal, comparative, and empirical methods—examines prosecutorial and police discretion, police interrogation practices, Miranda warnings, prosecutor socialization, and institutional reforms in law enforcement, as well as the transnational influence of American criminal procedure, particularly between Taiwan and the United States. He publishes in both English and Mandarin, offering sociological and historical perspectives on the legal profession and criminal justice systems.
Taylor Farr, Visiting Professor, University of Arkansas School of Law
Taylor Farr is a Visiting Professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law, where he teaches legal research and writing. His scholarship explores the impacts of generative artificial intelligence on legal education, the profession, and substantive law. Taylor’s work is informed by his experience with the William H. Bowen School of Law, the Eighth Circuit, and private practice.
Tommy Rousse, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois College of Law
Tommy Rousse is an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, Urbana-Champaign, studying how technical affordances, creativity norms, property rights, and legal regimes govern and structure innovation. He has a particular interest in studying the intersection of law and videogames. After working on the First Amendment and electronic games as an undergrad, he pursued an MSc. in Media, Technology and Games from IT University of Copenhagen while designing games and freelancing as a games journalist. In 2024, he completed a joint J.D./Ph.D. in Media, Technology and Society from Northwestern. His current academic research builds on this experience to develop a realist account of how IP shapes creativity with a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods for audiences from legal practitioners and jurists to fields such as science and technology studies, media studies, communications, and game studies.
