Dear Friends,
The always eagerly anticipated Journal of Law & Innovation (JLI) annual symposium took place on January 30. This year's event, Steering Complexity: Adaptive Governance for Emerging Technologies, featured six paper presentations by scholars from across the country. Ultimately, the papers will be published in JLI's next journal in late spring. We'll let you know when it's available. Of course, CTIC continues its program planning for the spring semester and beyond. That includes our event for AI Month at Penn, which begins in April. We'll provide information on the CTIC event as well as the month-long initiative soon.
The CTIC Team
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PIPG 2026 Annual Symposium: Critical Orbit: Regulating the Next Generation of Space Tech
February 20, 2026
10:30 am - 5:30 pm at Penn Carey Law
co-sponsored by CTIC, Penn Carey Law, and Wharton Undergraduate Aerospace Club (WUAC)
in person and open to the public | 4 sub. CLE credits available for Pa. lawyers
TO REGISTER
Twelfth Law and Computer Science Roundtable
May 12-13, 2026
at Penn Carey Law | by invitation only
Fifteenth Wasada-Penn Global Patent Law Conference
May 23, 2026
Tokyo, Japan
Eleventh Annual Penn-Columbia Copyright Scholarship Roundtable
June 9-10, 2026
at Penn Carey Law | by invitation only
Fault Lines of AI Governance Conference
June 16-17, 2026
Seoul AI Policy Conference 2026
Seoul, Korea | CTIC co-sponsor
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Steering Complexity: Adaptive Governance for Emerging Technologies
January 30, 2026
annual symposium of the Journal of Law & Innovation (JLI)
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"Cybernetic Lessons for Emerging Technology Governance" panel at the JLI Annual Symposium, on January 30: Penn Sharswood Fellow Gerald Adams, CTIC Academic Fellow Alex Mueller, and Prof. Rebecca Crootof of the University of Richmond School of Law
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Faculty Publications & Podcasts
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Cary Coglianese
⋅ Leashes, not guardrails: A management-based approach to artificial intelligence risk regulation, 45 Risk Analysis 4397 (2025), December 29, 2025 (with Colton Crum) | link
⋅ Loper Bright’s Disingenuity, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Issue 1, 2025 (with David Froomkin) | link
Kartik Hosanagar
⋅ When AI Becomes the Customer, Creative Intelligence, January 28, 2026 | link
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz
Brief of Amici Curiae Former Antitrust Officials and Antitrust Scholars in Support of Petitioners, CoStar Group, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc., Respondent, Writ of Certiorari, U.S. Supreme Court | link
Rakesh Vohra
⋅ Comment on “Assignment Problems With Complementarities” [J. Econ. Theory 165 (2016) 209-241], Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 231, January 2026 (with Daniel Kornbluth, Alexey Kushnir et al.) | link
⋅ Sharing With Frictions: Limited Transfers and Costly Inspections, arXiv, Cornell University, December 2025 (with Federico Bobbio, Randall Berry, et al.) | link
Kevin Werbach
⋅ Lead Author, The Stablecoin Toolkit Part 1: Financial and Market Dimensions, January 2026 | link
⋅ Summary of Blockchain Governance in the Wild, The Blockchain Scholars Book, January 2, 2026 | link
⋅ Alexandru Voica: Responsible AI Video, The Road to Accountable AI, December 18, 2026 | link
⋅ Chapter 18-Blockchain, Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence and the Law, November 25, 2025 | link
Pinar Yildirim
⋅ On Artificial Intelligence and Network Effects, CPI Antitrust Chronicle, October 23, 2025 | link
⋅ Persuasion and Dissuasion in Political Campaigns: Political Communication and Media Coverage in Senate Races, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, Vol. 23, October 22, 2025 (with Camilo Garcia-Jimeno) | link
⋅ Robotization and the Political Response of Politicians, NBER Chapters, in The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2025 (with Maria Petrova, et al.) | link
Christopher Yoo
Efficiency and effectiveness of net neutrality rules in the mobile sector: Relevant Developments and State of the Empirical Literature, 50 Telecommunications Policy 103111 (2026) (with Wolfgang Briglauer) | link
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| Faculty Speaking Engagements
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Kartik Hosanagar
⋅ Panelist, “How to Build AI-First Products: Models,” Memory, Mastery, Tech & AI Track, SXSW, March 17, 2026 | link
⋅ Presenter, Mentor Session: Kartik Hosanagar, Tech & AI Track, SXSW, Austin, Tx, March 18, 2026 | link
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz
⋅ Speaker, “Consumers are a They: Learning, Selection, and The Consumer Protection Paradox,” Larry E. Ribstein Law & Economics Workshop Series Spring 2026, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, March 17, 2026 | link
⋅ Panelist, “The Administrative State and Tech Access,” To Have and Have Not: Growing Asymmetries in Communications Technology, 2026 Flagship Conference, Silicon Flatirons, Colorado Law, Boulder, Co., February 1, 2026 | link
Michael Kearns
Presenter, “Networked Information Aggregation Via Machine Learning,” ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA26), Vancouver, Canada, January 13, 2026
Christopher Yoo
⋅ Moderator, “Research and Policy” panel, Accountable AI Research Conference, Wharton Accountable AI Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., February 6, 2026
⋅ Speaker, “Bias and Misinformation in the News,” Knight Research Network at the Knight Media Forum, Miami, Fla., February 10, 2026
⋅ Speaker, “Emerging Issues in Legal Scholarship,” co-sponsored by the Hebrew University Faculty of Law and the Notre Dame University School of Law, Jerusalem, Israel, February 22, 2026
⋅ Panelist, “AI Market Forces – A New Gap in Tech Access?,” To Have and Have Not: Growing Asymmetries in Communications Technology, 2026 Flagship Conference, Silicon Flatirons, Colorado Law, Boulder, Co., February 1, 2026 | link
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| Media mentions of CTIC faculty
Tom Baker
Insurers' Fight With Litigation Funders Hits Liability Practices, Bloomberg Law, December 30, 2025 | link
Chris Callison-Burch
Penn Engineering’s Chris Callison-Burch on 25 years of AI innovation, Penn Today, January 20, 2026 | link
Cynthia Laury Dahl
Using Law to Support Innovation, Penn Today, January 12, 2026 | link
Allison Hoffman
⋅ 2026 Changes to Medicare & Medicaid, Newsweek, December 30, 2025 | link
⋅ Cashing in on Addiction Recovery, The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 23, 2025 | link (paywall)
David Hoffman
Crypto Bill Delay Looms as Coinbase Withdraws Support for Senate’s Clarity Act, Bitcoin World, January 15, 2026 | link
Herbert Hovenkamp
Episode One: Herb Hovenkamp, Creative Discussion An Antitrust Podcast, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), January 20, 2026 | link
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz
Is Wegmans collecting shoppers’ biometric data at its Philly-area stores? The company won’t say, The Philadelphia Inquirier, January 23, 2026 | link (paywalll)
Michael Kearns
2025: The ‘First’ Year of AI, The Bucks Independence, December 26, 2025 | link
Jennifer Rothman
Who Will Own Your Digital Twin?, The Pennsylvania Gazette, January 5, 2026 | link
Duncan Watts
Journalism in a Changing Information Landscape, Annenberg Conversations, December 19, 2025 | link
Kevin Werbach
85 Predictions for AI and the Law in 2026, The National Law Review, January 5, 2025 | link
Pinar Yildirim
Who Gets Replaced by AI and Why?, Knowledge at Wharton, January 20, 2026 | link
Christopher Yoo
Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1881 to 1901, The Volokh Conspiracy, reason.com | link
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CTIC's 2024-2025 Annual Report
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Copyright 2026 © University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition (CTIC)
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Founding Director
Christopher Yoo
Imasogie Professor in Law and Technology; Professor of Communication; Professor of Computer and Information Science; Co-Director, Penn Center on Media, Technology & Democracy
Co-Director
R. Polk Wagner
Michael A. Fitts Professor of Law; Deputy Dean
Managing Director
Caroline Olson
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