The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School announced last week that it received a gift to support advancements in technology and artificial intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Perry and Donna Golkin Family Foundation donated<\/a> an undisclosed amount to fund the school\u2019s Technology, Regulation, AI, and the Law initiative, which focuses on providing a legal education adapted to rapidly changing technologies. According to a Sept. 28 announcement, the gift will be split to advance research and scholarship and to establish a new Dean\u2019s Innovation Fund.<\/p>\n TRAIL is a Penn Carey Law initiative that connects the school\u2019s curriculum, experiential learning, and faculty research in emerging technological areas. The gift acted as a \u201ccatalyst\u201d for its mission, according to the announcement.<\/p>\n The research and scholarship funding will be realized through the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition, which aims to help scholars advance technology-related policy and legal frameworks.<\/p>\n CTIC faculty co-director Polk Wagner described the TRAIL initiative as an effort to integrate technology into legal education across the school in an interview.<\/p>\n Get the DP delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n Sign Up<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe rise of generative AI will have a significant impact in the way that law is practiced in the future,\u201d he said, adding that Penn and its peer institutions need to figure out a way to train students and faculty about \u201cthis new era of legal practice.\u201d<\/p>\n Wagner compared Penn to other universities, saying that it has \u201ca coherent, unified program\u201d that aims to focus on this project.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe are integrating law and technology \u2014 including AI, but not limited to AI \u2014 in a way that\u2019s much more in depth and comprehensive than what any of our peers are doing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The dean\u2019s fund will aim to provide broad resources across Penn Carey Law for initiatives rooted in law and technology.<\/p>\n In the press release, Penn President Larry Jameson wrote that the \u201cGolkins\u2019 generosity has long played a critical role in strengthening Penn\u2019s leadership in transformative legal education, and their gift will allow us to remain at the forefront of law and technology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The gift is in line with other recent changes to the school\u2019s academic curriculum. Penn Carey Law is offering 13 new and returning courses related to law and technology during the 2026-27 academic year, as well as a recently launched Certificate of Study in AI and Law offered jointly with the School of Engineering and Applied Science.<\/p>\n Initially, only law students will be eligible to pursue the certificate. On-campus Engineering graduate students will become eligible for the distinction in the 2027-28 academic year, according to a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School announced last week that it received a gift to support advancements…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-300684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}