Legal and Ethical Issues of Medical AI

Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2026-10-28 12:00:00 2026-10-28 13:00:00 Legal and Ethical Issues of Medical AI Event Description This event is in-person for students only and virtual for everyone else. As AI increasingly enters clinical practice, several legal and ethical issues confront clinicians, health systems, and patients.  Who is liable when things go wrong?  What should patients be told, and to what do they need to consent?  What should be written down in the clinical record?  This talk will touch on questions of liability, informed consent, and documentation, especially when clinicians and AI models disagree.Speaker’s Bio:Nicholson Price is a Professor of Law and a Professor of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan. He studies how law shapes biomedical innovation, especially medical AI.  His work has appeared in Science, Nature, JAMA, NEJM, and leading law reviews.  He teaches patents, health law, life sciences innovation, AI law, and science fiction and the law.  Nicholson is a Senior Fellow at the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law and a Celadon Fellow at Seoul National University’s Center for Trustworthy AI. He holds a Biological Sciences PhD and a JD from Columbia.Reading Materials. Moot Courtroom (students only) and Virtual (all others) School of Law School of Law America/New_York public

Cost: Free

1 hour of CLE credit has been approved

Event Description

This event is in-person for students only and virtual for everyone else.

 As AI increasingly enters clinical practice, several legal and ethical issues confront clinicians, health systems, and patients.  Who is liable when things go wrong?  What should patients be told, and to what do they need to consent?  What should be written down in the clinical record?  This talk will touch on questions of liability, informed consent, and documentation, especially when clinicians and AI models disagree.

Speaker’s Bio:

Nicholson Price is a Professor of Law and a Professor of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan. He studies how law shapes biomedical innovation, especially medical AI.  His work has appeared in Science, Nature, JAMA, NEJM, and leading law reviews.  He teaches patents, health law, life sciences innovation, AI law, and science fiction and the law.  Nicholson is a Senior Fellow at the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law and a Celadon Fellow at Seoul National University’s Center for Trustworthy AI. He holds a Biological Sciences PhD and a JD from Columbia.

Reading Materials.

Event Location

Moot Courtroom (students only) and Virtual (all others)

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Nicholson Price
Professor of Law and Professor of Learning Health Sciences
University of Michigan