Rafael Dean BrownQatar University · College of Law
Rafael Dean Brown
Juris Doctor
Artificial Intelligence Law and Regulation
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Introduction
Rafael Dean Brown conducts research on AI law, data protection, emerging tech, and legal skills. He is associate professor at Qatar University College of Law, where he teaches Legal Skills and Methodology, Environmental Law, Drafting Business Contracts, and Business Law and Ethics. He serves on the QU Strategic Planning Committee on Digital Transformation, and was a Jean Monnet Convenor in the Doha Courses on EU Law. He has also served on the Faculty Senate, Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs.
Additional affiliations
May 2002 - May 2008
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Position
- Assistant Director
Description
- Courses Taught: Foreign Graduate Seminar, Evidence Law, English for Foreign Graduate Students, Doing Business in the US
May 2008 - December 2011
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Position
- Associate Director
Description
- Courses Taught: Foreign Graduate Seminar, Evidence Law, English for Foreign Graduate Students, Doing Business in the US
August 2015 - September 2022
Qatar University College of Law
Position
- Assistant Professor of Law
Description
- Courses Taught: Legal Writing II, Legal Skills and Methodology, Business Law and Ethics Faculty Senate; Legal Skills Department; Affiliate Member, Centre for Law and Development; Jean Monnet Convenor
Education
August 1999 - July 2002
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Field of study
- Law
August 1995 - July 1999
Case Western Reserve University
Field of study
- English
Publications
Publications (25)
The art industry has commercialised and popularised non-fungible tokens (NFTs), with the volume and value of NFT transactions rapidly growing to US$ 10.7 billion in Q3 2021. The increase in NFT transactions has drawn the attention of the art market to the consequent carbon emissions resulting from verifying transactions in proof-of-work blockchains...
Despite an emerging international consensus on principles of AI governance, lawmakers have so far failed to translate those principles into regulations in the financial sector. Perhaps, in order to remain competitive in the global race for AI supremacy without being typecast as stifling innovation, typically cautious financial regulators are unusua...
This paper argues for a sandbox approach to regulating artificial intelligence (AI) to complement a strict liability regime. The authors argue that sandbox regulation is an appropriate complement to a strict liability approach, given the need to maintain a balance between a regulatory approach that aims to protect people and society on the one hand...
This paper adds to the discussion on the legal personhood of artificial intelligence by focusing on one area not covered by previous works on the subject-ownership of property. The author discusses the nexus between property ownership and legal personhood. The paper explains the prevailing misconceptions about the requirements of rights or duties i...
This article explores the legal and ethical implications of big data's pursuit of human 'digital thought clones'. It identifies various types of digital clones that have been developed and demonstrates how the pursuit of more accurate personalised consumer data for micro-targeting leads to the evolution of digital thought clones. The article explai...
Telematics is a technology that allows vehicle tracking and monitoring. This paper investigates its legal implications in Qatar, where road fatalities are high, but considers the results with international applicability. It reviews the current laws that govern telematics and evaluates their compatibility with constitutional rights or principles, es...
This article seeks to address the issue of the regulation of telematics in vehicles. The objective is to navigate the need to protect data privacy and data security while enhancing road safety through telematics. Vehicles telematics devices utilizing analytical and predictive technology can help identify and reduce the risk of dangerous driving. Su...
The European Union (EU) is leading in the regulation of data privacy and artificial intelligence through the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the proposed European Commission (EC) regulation, and the proposed European Parliament (EP) regulations concerning Artificial Intelligence (AI). The EU also regulates AI through ethical aspects and...
The presentation was given at Qatar University College of Law, and discussed the dual role of law and ethics in regulating artificial intelligence. The presentation provides an overview of the development of AI regulation and ethics in the European Union and the United States, and discusses future areas of regulatory activity. The presentation was...
Big data analytics is transforming the water sector at the national and international levels. Its potential impact on transboundary water resource governance is being assessed, for example, in the context of selected basins, including the Ramotswa aquifer shared between South Africa and Botswana. However, international water law and transboundary w...
This poster visualizes an article titled “Human digital thought clones: the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence for big data”, which explores the legal and ethical implications of big data’s pursuit of human ‘digital thought clones’. It identifies various types of digital clones that have been developed and demonstrates how the pursuit of more ac...
Supplementary materials, whether created by English language instructors themselves or borrowed from other resources, play a significant role in teaching writing to English language learners. In both cases, the development and/or selection process involves certain stages that challenge materials developers at different levels and with varying inten...
This article explores the legal and ethical implications of big data’s pursuit of human ‘digital thought clones’. It identifies various types of digital clones that have been developed and demonstrates how the pursuit of more accurate personalised consumer data for micro-targeting leads to the evolution of digital thought clones. The article explai...
Researchers suggest that there is an urgent need for stringent domestic regulations to protect citizens against misuse of digital thought clones.
There is a growing consensus that emergency arbitration is now a permanent and integral part of international arbitration. Commentators and practitioners recognise the significance of the emergency arbitrator mechanism in protecting the parties’ assets and interests. In emergency arbitration, institutional rules give a solo arbitrator, called the e...
While the field of materials development has grown in the past twenty years, covering areas like EAP and ESP, there remains a need to elaborate further the strategies and to develop a process for developing materials for EALP courses such as legal writing. Legal writing in particular poses unique challenges like the complex system of legal writing...
In an age when cybersecurity vulnerabilities can be used as a pretext for a blockade, as in the case of Qatar prompted by a hack of the Qatar News Agency, it becomes incumbent upon states to consider legislating the capability maturity measurement and the development of their cybersecurity programs across the community. This paper proposes a Qatar...
On 9 March 2017, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAS) of Qatar issued regulations
covering registration requirements and permissible uses of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly known as drones (hereafter referred to as the Drone
Regulations). The Drone Regulations aim to strike a balance among concerns of safety, privacy, and the highly-valued...
In March 2017, Qatar’s Civil Aviation Authority issued regulations covering the registration requirements and permissible uses of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly known as drones. The new regulations aim to strike a balance between safety and privacy concerns and the commercial value of drones. Unlike drone regulations in other countries w...
Wilson Huhn’s book, Five Types of Legal Arguments, which categorizes legal arguments into five categories (text, intent, precedent, tradition and policy), largely inspired me to consider whether it was possible to create a taxonomy of the methods, rather than the types, of legal analysis lawyers commonly use in legal writing. I began by examining e...
The paper focuses on the cross-cultural and cross-linguistic challenges for ESL students using contrastive rhetoric theory, a growing and evolving field of study, which focuses on the relationship of culture, language, logic, and rhetoric. The underlying assumption to contrastive rhetoric theory is that language and writing are cultural phenomena w...
The inquiry into the cross-cultural and cross-linguistic challenges for English as a Second Language (ESL) students when composing in various academic settings has long been undertaken by contrastive rhetoricians. Contrastive rhetoric is a growing and evolving field of study on the differences and similarities in cross cultural and cross linguistic...
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There is currently much speculation on when AGI may be achieved if at all. Recent advancements in AI technology from ChatGPT’s SORA to NVIDIA’s robotics have fueled the belief that AGI is near- with some speculating that it is a soon as 7 months away. Discussions regarding capabilites of Q star, developed by OpenAI have made some move their predictions sooner. However, other experts like LeCunn remain skeptical and view AGI as still much farther ahead. Of course, much of this depends on the underlying definition of AGI.
When in your view will AGI be achieved, if ever?
