PUB PLC 289BFuture Law: Legal and Governance Responses to Transformative Societal Trends
Public Policy · 1 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Examination of challenges to law and government from disruptive technologies and environmental stresses. Topics include artificial intelligence, engineered environmental control, human modification and capabilities enhancement, lifespan extension, and severe environmental change. Consideration of likely or plausible trends in the next decade; resulting disruption to law and policy; and potential responses, both likely and desirable. Study is unavoidably speculative, but aims to keep it disciplined by present knowledge. Application of legal and institutional knowledge to new problems. Consideration of large-scale challenges originating outside the sphere of law that are likely to drive changes in substantive legal arrangements. Expectations for reading, engagement in critical and informed discussion, and quality of written work is high; and overall workload is demanding. Concurrently scheduled with Law 489.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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