Professor William Widen was recently awarded a University of Miami Provost Research Award for his research project, “Responsible Regulation of Automated Vehicles and Corporate Governance.” The Provost Research Award provides both salary support and support for direct research costs.
He is an expert on automated vehicle technology and safety, and recently published a paper “Highly Automated Vehicles & Discrimination Against Low-Income Persons,” in the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology.
Widen teaches commercial law, contracts, and other business subjects at Miami Law. A cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review, Widen clerked for Levin Campbell, Chief Judge of the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
