Your final assignment will be to write a short (circa ten pages) paper due October 21.
Using any source
a. in the required or optional readings OR
b. in the Robot Law book (Calo et al eds) on reserve, OR
c. that was presented in either of the two most recent We Robot conferences ( see http://robots.law.miami.edu/2016/program/ and http://www.werobot2015.org/ )
so long as that paper is 12 or more pages long and is NOT one that you presented in class, address ONE of the following four topics:
1) Apply the paper to a recent news event and show how the paper illuminates something that otherwise wouldn’t be obvious.
2) Critique the paper – demonstrate a flaw in the argument or assumptions (feel free to use other papers on the list above or outside it if they help).
3) Contrast it to another paper on the list. [Note: do not use two papers in the section on killer robots for this choice.]
4) Answer the challenge to “robot law” implicit in Easterbrook’s Law of the Horse paper about the internet.
My goal is to have you apply what you have learned in an interesting and original way and thus demonstrate mastery of it. I am more interested in your using the knowledge than regurgitating it.
Technical stuff.
- Please Blue Book your paper.
- Please number your pages.
- Please do NOT tell me your paper topic.
- Email the paper to acarrillo@law.miami.edu with your midterm AGN (which you can get from the registrar’s office) on the paper instead of your name.
PS. You might want to look at my Legal Writing Tips. (However, please ignore #6 in the “details” section; use your AGN instead.)