The “Construction in Space in the Third and Fourth Dimension” statue by Antoine Pevsner sits in the Law School's reflecting pool with the sun behind it.
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Prof. Tom Ginsburg discussed democracy and the rule of law at a symposium at Georgetown Law that was broadcast on  C-SPAN. “In my view, democracy requires bureaucracy. It requires a civil service of people who stay there and take political instructions, whoever happens to be power,” he said.

Advances in artificial intelligence can prompt heady predictions of utopia and apocalypse. But they can also prompt reflection about the purpose of the human institutions AI threatens to replace. Take a recent University of Chicago paper pitting real federal judges against ChatGPT.

Elon Musk’s assertion of power over some of the government’s largest and most sensitive data systems isn’t merely a contravention of American statutory law, administrative norms, and individual privacy rights. It is an act of constitutional restructuring, and should be understood in those terms.

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