1 Monday Sept 19: What is a Robot? What is ‘Robot Law’?
1.1 Pages 1-13 & 17-25 of Neil Richards & William Smart, How Should the Law Think About Robots? (You may skip section 3) available online at http://robots.law.miami.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/RichardsSmart_HowShouldTheLawThink.pdf
1.2 § 1.3 (pp. 15-17) of EU Guidelines on Regulating Robotics (Jan. 3, 2012), full text available at http://www.robolaw.eu/RoboLaw_files/documents/robolaw_d6.2_guidelinesregulatingrobotics_20140922.pdf but due to its length I have only put the relevant pages in your packet.
1.3 Pages 525-49 of Ryan Calo, Robotics and the Lessons of Cyberlaw, 103 California Law Review 513 (2015), available online at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2402972. (Your packet contains the whole article in case you are interested, but only pp. 425-49 are required.)
1.4 Sections 5-12 (pp. 6-17) of William Smart, What do We Really Know About Robots and the Law?, (March 24, 2016) http://robots.law.miami.edu/2016/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Smart-robots-law.pdf
Optional reading:
1.5 Adrienne Lafrance, What is a Robot?, The Atlantic (Mar. 22, 2016), available at http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/what-is-a-human/473166/
1.6 Sam Lehman-Wilzig, Frankenstein Unbound: Towards a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence, FUTURES (Dec. 1981), available online at http://profslw.com/wp-content/uploads/academic/40._Frankenstein_Unbound.Towards_a_legal_definition…pdf
1.7 Frank H. Easterbrook, Cyberspace and the Law of the Horse, 1996 U. Chi. Legal F. 207, available at http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2147&context=journal_articles
1.8 Ryan Calo, Robots in American Law, http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2737598
2 Tuesday Sept 20: : Robotic Personhood?
2.1 James Boyle, Endowed by Their Creator? The Future of Constitutional Personhood, Brookings Institution (Mar. 9, 2011), available online at https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/0309_personhood_boyle.pdf Martinez
2.2 Please watch these videos:
2.2.1 Fido v. Spot, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7nhygaGOmo
2.2.2 Atlas, The Next Generation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
2.3 Kate Darling, Extending Legal Rights to Robots (Apr. 23, 2012), available online at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2044797. Malek
2.4 Helen Norton & Toni Massaro, Siriously? Free Speech Rights for Artificial Intelligence, http://robots.law.miami.edu/2016/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Seri-ouslyNOV8.pdf Kanfi
Optional reading:
2.5 Lawrence Solum, Legal Personhood for Artificial Intelligences, 70 North Carolina Law Review 1231 (1992), available online at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1108671
3 Wed Sept 21: UAVs (“Drones”)
3.1 Pages 1-36 of A. Michael Froomkin & Zak Colangelo, Self-Defense Against Robots and Drones, 48 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (2015), http://ssrn.com/abstract=2504325 Brett
3.2 Margot Kaminski, Drone Federalism: Civilian Drones and the Things They Carry, 4 California Law Review Circuit 57 (2013), available online at http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=clrcircuit. Malek
3.3 Latest FAA rules Burch
3.3.1 David Kravets, Got a drone? You’ll have to register it with the US government (Oct. 19, 2015), http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/got-a-drone-you-may-have-to-register-it-with-the-us-government/
3.3.2 FAA, FACT SHEET: New Commitments to Accelerate the Safe Integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Aug. 2, 2016), https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/08/02/fact-sheet-new-commitments-accelerate-safe-integration-unmanned-aircraft
3.3.3 Robotic Trends, Rules for Small Commercial Drones Take Effect (Aug 29, 2016), http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/rules_for_small_commercial_drones_take_effect
3.3.4 FAA, Summary of Small Unmanned Aircraft Rule (Part 107) (June 21, 2016), https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/Part_107_Summary.pdf
3.4 Eric Limer, How to Shoot Down a Drone (Aug 6, 2015), http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/how-to/a16756/how-to-shoot-down-a-drone/ Burch
Optional extras:
3.5 Videos:
3.5.1 “Flying Gun” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHrTtvFFIs
3.5.2 “Watch These Trained Eagles Take Down Drones Flying in The Air” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAYVyj6vf3Y
3.5.3 “Anti-Drone system- Drone defense” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjtZDwWveqY
3.6 Ryan Calo, The Drone as Privacy Catalyst, 64 Stanford Law Review Online 29 (2011), available online at http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/drone-privacy-catalyst
3.7 Greg McNeal, Drones and Aerial Surveillance: Considerations for Legislatures (Nov, 2014), http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2014/11/drones-and-aerial-surveillance
3.8 Drone drops heroin, marijuana and tobacco in Ohio prison yard (Aug 4, 2015), http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ohio-prison-idUSKCN0Q928E20150804
4 Thursday Sept 22: Robot Police
4.1 Pages 1-20 of Elizabeth E. Joh, Policing Police Robots, ULA L. Rev. Disc. (forthcoming 2016), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2817185 Bartz
4.2 Lisa Shay et al., Confronting Automated Law Enforcement (Ch. 10 in Robot Law (Ryan Calo et al eds 2016) (on reserve)) Kanfi
4.3 Lisa Shay et al., Do Robots Dream of Electric Laws? (Ch. 11 in Robot Law (Ryan Calo et al eds 2016) (on reserve)) Sinner
Optional Extras:
4.4 Peter Asaro, Will #BlackLivesMatter to RoboCop?, http://robots.law.miami.edu/2016/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Asaro_Will-BlackLivesMatter-to-Robocop_Revised_DRAFT.pdf
4.5 Kristen Thomasen, Examining the Constitutionality of Enhanced Robot Interrogation (Ch. 12 in Robot Law (Ryan Calo et al eds 2016) (on reserve))
5 Friday Sept23: Robots at War (3 hrs)
5.1 P.W. Singer, Robots at War: The New Battlefield, 2008 Wilson Q. 30, http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/sites/default/files/articles/WQ_VOL33_W_2009_Article_03.pdf. Goldberg
5.2 Duncan Hollis, Setting the Stage: Autonomous Legal Reasoning in International Humanitarian Law, 30 Temple Int’l & Comp. L.J. (forthcoming 2016), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2711304. Grigoryan
5.3 Section I (pp 1354-66) of Rebecca Crootof, War Torts, U. Pa. L. Rev. (2016), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2657680. Bartz & Schultz
5.4 Section II (pp 1366-86) of Rebecca Crootof, War Torts, U. Pa. L. Rev. (2016), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2657680. Martinez & Whitley
5.5 Objections Ahmed
5.5.1 Human Rights Watch & Int’l Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law Sch., Advancing the Debate on Killer Robots: 12 Key Arguments for a Preemptive Ban on Fully Autonomous Weapons (2014), http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/Advancing%20the%20Debate_8May2014_Final.pdf.
5.5.2 Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter From AI & Robotics Researchers, http://futureoflife.org/open-letter-autonomous-weapons/
5.6 Michael Schmitt, Autonomous Weapon Systems and International Humanitarian Law: A Reply to the Critics, 2013 Harv. Nat’l Sec. J. Features, http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Schmitt-Autonomous-Weapon-Systems-and-IHL-Final.pdf. Whitley
Sat Sept 24 (3 hrs): Trouble cases & What to do about them (two parts)
6 Part I: Trouble Cases
6.1 Robin Marantz, Henig, Death By Robot, New York Times Magazine, at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/magazine/death-by-robot.html Schultz
6.2 Pages 11- 35 of Meg Letta Anbrose, Regulating the Loop: Ironies of Automation Law (2014), http://robots.law.miami.edu/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/AmbroseWeRobot20141.pdf Sinner
6.3 Madeleine Elish, Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human Robot Interaction, http://robots.law.miami.edu/2016/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ELISH_WEROBOT_cautionary-tales_03212016.pdf Burch
6.4 Margot Kaminsky, Robots in the Home: What Will We Have Agreed To?, 51 Idaho L. Rev. 661 (2015), http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2592500 Grigoryan
Optional reading:
6.5 Jason Millar & Ian Kerr, Delegation, Relinquishment and Responsibility: The Prospect of Expert Robots (Ch. 5 in Robot Law (Ryan Calo et al eds 2016) (on reserve))
6.6 § 4 on Robotic Prostheses (pp 106-66) in EU Guidelines on Regulating Robotics (Jan. 3, 2012), full text available at http://www.robolaw.eu/RoboLaw_files/documents/robolaw_d6.2_guidelinesregulatingrobotics_20140922.pdf but due to its length I have only put the relevant pages in your packet.
6.7 Ryan Calo, People Can Be So Fake, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1458637
7 Part II: Possible Solutions
7.1 Pages 53-69 of A. Michael Froomkin & Zak Colangelo, Self-Defense Against Robots and Drones, 48 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (2015) [see drones section above for full text of article] Goldberg
7.2 Ryan Calo, The Case for a Federal Robotics Commission (Sept. 2014), http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Reports/2014/09/case-for-federal-robotics-commission/RoboticsCommissionR2_Calo.pdf?la=en Brett
7.3 Conclusions (pp. 197-214), EU Guidelines on Regulating Robotics (Jan. 3, 2012), full text available at http://www.robolaw.eu/RoboLaw_files/documents/robolaw_d6.2_guidelinesregulatingrobotics_20140922.pdf but due to its length I have only put the relevant pages in your packet. Ahmed