It was a pleasure to participate in Penn State Dickinson Law’s Admitted Student Day in Carlisle, organized by Rebecca Schreiber, M.Ed., and her team of colleagues and student volunteers. I joined colleagues and students for an “Ask Me Anything” panel with students and their guests. The discussion was wide-ranging, covering the transition to law school, maintaining balance, internships and externships, housing, law review, and our core values. Moments like this reinforce what legal education should be: rigorous, supportive, and grounded in community. Nicholas Kahn-Fogel | Bekah Saidman-Krauss | Devon Spiva | Anesia Lawson

Over the past several weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting with colleagues across Carlisle and University Park, as well as alumni and partners in Chicago. In Carlisle, I enjoyed thoughtful conversations with Penn State Dickinson Law colleagues Gary S. Gildin and Bill Butler. At University Park, I connected with Rachel Arnold, Matt Gardner, Justis Reed, Jonathan D'Silva, my Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences colleagues Guido Cervone, Wolf Hey, and Chad Bahrmann, as well as Ligia I. Reyes, PhD, MPH (Penn State College of Health and Human Development) and Zhen Lei (Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences). I also had the opportunity to reconnect with my former University of Illinois Chicago School of Law colleagues, Sandy Olken, Cross, Karen Halverson, and Michael Schlesinger, and John Marshall Law School alum Adam Kelly in Chicago. These conversations remind me that institutions are ultimately defined by people and our relationships with them. It is through these relationships, sustained across locations, disciplines, and cities, that we expand what is possible for our students, our scholarship, and our shared mission.

A striking moment from a recent 60 MINUTES segment on AI art: Refik Anadol described data as “a pigment that doesn’t need to dry.” That metaphor reveals both the promise and the disruption of generative AI. Perhaps the most important insight from the segment came from critic Jerry Saltz, who distinguished between “AI art” and art that uses AI. The distinction matters. AI is not an author in the human sense. But it is rapidly becoming part of the infrastructure through which authorship occurs. The legal system now faces a foundational question: not whether AI can create, but how law should govern creativity when it emerges from hybrid human-machine systems. We are watching, in real time, the emergence of a new creative and legal order. Together with about 800 registrants joining us in person and virtually from around the world, I look forward to exploring these questions next week at the International Tech & IP Disputes Exchange (I-TIDE) in New York and San Francisco, where judges, practitioners, technologists, and scholars will examine how courts across jurisdictions are beginning to confront these issues. The event is proudly co-organized by WIPO, IPOS, and Penn State Dickinson Law. Hope to see you there! https://lnkd.in/gRQtbCG7 Register even if you can't come! We'll send you a recording. https://lnkd.in/gwp8pDx9 Daren Tang World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO | Danielle Conway Penn State Dickinson Law | Kong Hwee Tan Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) | Jordan Gimbel Microsoft | Gideon Myles OpenAI | Jon Small Google DeepMind | Joe Gratz Morrison Foerster | David Kappos Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP | Richard Hung Morrison Foerster | Joshua L. Simmons Kirkland & Ellis | Tom Pease Greenberg Traurig, LLP | Rachael Kent WilmerHale | Adriana Uson Singapore International Arbitration Centre | Dr Stanley Lai, SC Allen & Gledhill LLP | Ignacio de Castro WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center | Mark Fisher Asian Business Law Institute | Crystal Tan Singapore International Commercial Court | Jacob Noti-Victor Cardozo School of Law | Ethan J. Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C.