The Future of Civil Liberties in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Symposium Schedule (September 25, 2026)

9:00 – 9:10

9:15 – 10:05

Yonathan Arbel

Yonathan Arbel is the William Alfred Rose Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law, where he directs the Program on AI and Legal Studies and co-directs the Center for Law and AI Risk. His research focuses on contracts, artificial intelligence, consumer law, and the ways emerging technologies affect legal decision-making and institutional design. His scholarship has appeared in leading law reviews and interdisciplinary journals, and his current work examines A-corps, Agentic AI corporations.

10:15 – 10:55

Kevin Frazier

Professor Kevin Frazier leads the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law and serves as a Senior Editor at Lawfare. His research focuses on the nexus of emerging technology, regulatory design, and the Rule of Law. Frazier has testified before Congress on topics ranging from AI to undersea cables; he regularly advises state and federal policymakers on governing emerging technologies. You can listen to his two cents on all things tech policy via the Scaling Laws podcast.

11:05 – 11:45

Daniel Schwarcz

Professor Daniel Schwarcz is the Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law and a Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. His scholarship focuses on insurance law, financial regulation, consumer protection, and the growing role of artificial intelligence in legal practice and legal education.

Schwarcz’s work has appeared in many of the nation’s leading law reviews, including the University of Chicago Law Review (three times), Virginia Law Review (twice), UCLA Law Review, Southern California Law Review (twice), Washington University Law Review, Minnesota Law Review (three times), and Iowa Law Review (three times). His scholarship has also been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the Journal of Law and Empirical Analysis (twice), and the Journal of Legal Education (three times).

His research has received numerous honors, including the American Law Institute’s Early Career Scholars Medal, awarded to law professors whose work shows exceptional promise in shaping public policy and improving the law. Schwarcz has repeatedly been recognized among the most cited scholars in tort and insurance law and consistently ranks among the most downloaded law professors on SSRN.

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch Break

1:00 - 1:45 

Keynote Speaker: Matthew Tokson

Professor Tokson's research focuses on the Fourth Amendment and its application to new technologies and social contexts, as well as artificial intelligence and its potential future impacts. He has also written about broader theoretical issues in privacy, judicial decisionmaking, and criminal punishment. Professor Tokson's articles have been published or are forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Georgetown Law Review, and the Minnesota Law Review. His article Knowledge and Fourth Amendment Privacy was discussed at oral argument in the Supreme Court case Carpenter v. United States.

2:00 - 2:40

Paul Weitzel

Professor Paul Weitzel joined the University of Nebraska College of Law faculty in 2022. Prior to that he worked in Silicon Valley and the Middle East conducting international transactions on six continents. His most notable deal was the initial public offering of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, the largest initial public offering to date. Professor Weitzel’s experience covers mergers and acquisitions, international and domestic capital markets, venture capital and infrastructure.

Professor Weitzel’s research focuses on corporate theory and artificial intelligence. His scholarship considers corporate principles—such as agency, liability and control—in the context of corporate governance, developing technologies and AI agents.

Panel Discussion

Moderated by Professor Paul Weitzel and including Professors Lori Hoetger, Greg Dickinson, and Kyle Langvardt. 

Closing Remarks