This should be fun!

Class requirements are simple.

1. Do the required readings
2. Turn up ready to discuss them.  I’ll provide a few questions in advance, but I hope that many others will occur to you.
3. Other than the first class, each class will begin with presentations of the reading by members of the class. During the first class I will randomly assign responsibility for presenting the readings in subsequent classes. You may trade with each other so long as you notify me of the trades by email before class. Depending on enrollment, expect to present one or two readings (or in the case of short readings, groups of readings) during the week. If you are presenting an article (other than the long EU report), please read all of it, not just the part assigned to the class.  Plan on a circa 10 minute presentation summarizing the main point(s) of the reading(s). Some questions that you might want to address in your presentation could include:
   1. What is the main thesis of the article?
   2. Does the author make assumptions? If so, what are they and do you think they are plausible?
   3. What was most interesting about the paper (may not have been the main point)?
   4. Are there any arguments that you think are mistaken?
   5. What questions does the article raise but not answer?
   6. How would you go about answering those questions?
4. You will also be expected to write a short (circa 10 pages) paper reacting to any one of the following:
   1. Any required or optional reading that is
      1. 12 or more pages long and
      2. not one that you presented in class
   2. Any paper presented at either of the last two editions of We Robot – see http://robots.law.miami.edu/2016/program/ and http://www.werobot2015.org/
   3. Any chapter of “Robot Law” (on reserve in the library).

The paper will be due shortly after the Fall Break. Please do NOT tell me your paper topic. Email the paper to acarrillo@law.miami.edu with your midterm AGN (which you get from the registar’s office) instead of your name. We will discuss additional details about the paper in class.