Professor Andres Sawicki, director of the Business of Innovation, Law, and Technology Concentration, and Professor John Newman were recently awarded an IDSC grant for their new project, “The Terms and Conditions of Generative AI.” The Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing offered this limited funding opportunity in Generative AI and received exceptional proposals from all three campuses. Sawicki and Newman's project was one among the only four that successfully received the grant.
Sawicki teaches in the area of intellectual property. His primary research projects explore the extent to which IP can help solve problems in the production of inventions and expressive works. He is particularly interested in the complex psychology of creativity, and in the difficulty of coordinating multiple creative collaborators. Professor Sawicki’s research also examines the interaction among distinct patent doctrines. His work has been published by leading journals, including Cornell Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, and The University of Chicago Law Review, among others.
Newman is an expert on antitrust and competition law, with a primary focus on the economics and regulation of digital markets. He has served with both the Federal Trade Commission (as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition) and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (as trial attorney). Newman has served on the advisory boards for the American Antitrust Institute and the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, and as a fellow with the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale.
