Technology & Law

Project Team Members

Co-Chairs Marie Thursby, Regents' Professor, Scheller College of Business
Bob Ahdieh, vice dean and professor, Emory Law School

Project Liaison Lynn Durham, assistant vice president, Office of the President

Abstract: Enhancing collaborative partnerships in the areas where technology meets the arts, design, medicine, and the law will be as critical during our next planning phase as was building physical infrastructure during the 2002-2010 period of the last strategic plan. 

We will research partnerships and strategic alliances with law schools and other institutions to produce graduates who are well-versed in international intellectual property (IP), commercialization, bioethics, international law, and the aspects of law as it is influenced and shaped by technology.

The institute or partnership would take advantage of Georgia Tech's strengths in these knowledge areas and position Tech as a leader in educational innovation and intellectual property law theory and product development, both nationally and internationally, while at the same time helping to fulfill the vision outlined in the plan that we will "be leaders in influencing major technological, social, and policy decisions that address critical global challenges."

Project Updates

Aug. 7, 2011 — A collaboration between Georgia Tech and Emory University in the areas of law and technology is on its way to becoming a reality.