Bill C-27, Canada’s proposed privacy reform and AI regulation bill, continues to slowly work its way through the committee process at the House of Commons with the clause-by-clause review of the AI portion of the bill still weeks or even months away. Recently a group of nearly 60 leading civil society organizations, corporations, experts and
For decades, advocates of “shareholder primacy” as the North Star of corporate governance have steered our leading corporations and our Nation’s economic engine perilously off-course. Since the 1970s, when the work of Milton Friedman, Michael Jensen, and Frank Easterbrook took hold in business schools, activists and raiders in high-profile proxy fights and hostile
The annual top 100 rankings are now published and I’ve seen about 100 press releases already from law schools singing their own praises. This one means something as they have the No.1 Legal Writing program and in the time of AI and the law I believe this to be something of great significance even if
The government announced plans over the weekend to spend billions of dollars to support artificial intelligence. Billed as “securing Canada’s AI Advantage”, the plan includes promises to spend $2 billion on an AI Compute Access Fund and a Canadian AI Sovereign Compute Strategy that is focused on developing domestic computing infrastructure. In addition, there
Arati Prabhakar, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), recently referred to artificial intelligence (AI) as “one of the most consequential technologies of our times.” While AI is not new, we have seen advances in generative AI at an astonishing rate over the last year. The potential for AI’s impact
Corporate boards will be called upon to renew their oversight of corporate compliance following the recent announcement of several new corporate fraud enforcement initiatives by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Most notably, these include a new whistleblower program and the expectation that effective compliance programs will monitor the risks of companies’ misuse of emerging
How do directors add value to corporations, and what are their incentives? They add value through monitoring and advising management – although monitoring seems to have taken precedence in the wake of high-profile financial scandals. As for directors’ incentives, the answer is less straightforward. While director compensation has increased in recent years, non-pecuniary incentives remain
IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, and the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), today announced a new joint project—Foundations 2.0—designed to provide a comprehensive updated view of the skills and competencies new lawyers need to succeed and serve clients well in the rapidly evolving legal profession. The Foundations 2.0 project represents
Brian Tippens, ‘00, is the Senior Vice President and Chief Social Impact Officer at Cisco. In this role, Tippens oversees the leadership of Cisco’s inclusive work such as social justice, advocacy, accessibility, and community impact, to
In the fall of 2021, IAALS launched a virtual summit series, Paths to Justice, to underscore not only the challenges of the moment but also the substantial opportunities for systemic change. The series was comprised of multiple invite-only virtual convenings as well as a series of webinars focusing on the paths of the pandemic,