Law Review Symposium
Chapman Law Review Symposium

ยป The 2024 Chapman Law Review Symposium

 

Rhythm, Rhyme, and the Rule of Law

Friday, February 2, 2024

 

10:00 a.m. CHECK-IN


10:15 - 11:45 a.m.: PANEL 1: FEDERAL RIGHT OF PUBLICITY?

Brandon Anand, Managing Attorney, Anand Law PC

Kevin J. Greene, Professor of Law and John J. Schumacher Chair, Southwestern Law School

John Tehranian, Professor of Law and Paul W. Wildman Chair, Southwestern Law School

Moderator: Nate Camuti, Professor of Law, Chapman University, Fowler School of Law


12 p.m. - 1 p.m.: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: COPYRIGHTING ALL THE MELODIES TO AVOID ACCIDENTAL INFRINGEMENT

Damien Riehl, VP, vLex & Attorney and Founder of All the Music, LLC


1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m: PANEL 2: RAP ON TRIAL

Rep. Hank Johnson, United States Congressman, 4th District of Georgia

Charis E. Kubrin, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine

Jack Lerner, Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law

Moderator: Henry Noyes, Professor of Law, Chapman University, Fowler School of Law


2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m: EN BANC
Refreshments and hor d’oeuvres will be served immediately following the last panel in the Kennedy Hall Lobby


4:00 p.m.

SYMPOSIUM CONCLUDES

Previous Keynote Speakers


  • United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
  • Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean
  • Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III
  • Steven Schwarcz, Stanley A. Star Professor of Law and Business, Duke University
  • Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff
  • Michael Flaherty, President of Walden Media
Photo of Keynote Speaker Damien Rhiel
Keynote Speaker

Damien Riehl


Damien Riehl is a lawyer and technologist with experience in complex litigation, digital forensics, and software development. A coder since 1985 and for the web since 1995, Damien clerked for the chief judges of state and federal courts, practiced in complex litigation for over a decade, has led teams of cybersecurity and world-spanning digital forensics investigations, and has led teams in legal-software development.

In 2019, Damien gave a TEDx Talk about his All the Music project, which to date has computationally composed over 400,000,000,000 (400B) melodies, has written them to disc (fixed in a tangible medium), and has given the public access through Creative Commons Zero (CC0), which provides rights similar to rights to works in the Public Domain. Damien's project has contributed to discussions between lawyers, musicians, and industry professionals regarding (1) copyrightability of machine-created works and (2) copyrightability of melodies alone.

An appointee of the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Connected and Automated Vehicles, he has helped recommend changes to Minnesota statutes, rules, and policies. Damien is Chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association's working group on AI and the Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL). At SALI, the legal data standard he helps lead, Damien develops and has greatly expanded the taxonomy of over 14,000 legal tags that matter, helping the legal industry's development of Generative AI, analytics, and interoperability. At vLex Group — which includes Fastcase, NextChapter, and Docket Alarm – Damien helps design, develop, and expand various products, integrating AI-backed technologies (e.g., GPT) to improve legal workflows and power legal data analytics.