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Emile

Loza

de Siles

Assistant Professor of Law

Degrees

  • Data Sciences Graduate Studies, Harvard University
  • Cybersecurity Strategy Grad. Certificate Georgetown University
  • JD, George Washington University Law School
  • MBA, University of Houston-Clear Lake
  • BS, Oklahoma State University System

Biography

Emile Loza de Siles is Assistant Professor of Law with the University of Hawai‘i, William S. Richardson School of Law.  A technology and intellectual property attorney-entrepreneur with more than twenty years’ of experience, she has represented Cisco, HP, Accenture, and numerous other innovators in transactional, litigation, and strategic matters.  She also represented the U.S. Department of Commerce in its Office of General Counsel working on technology transactions, appropriations law compliance, and government transparency matters.  She clerked for the Honorable Sérgio A. Gutiérrez, Idaho Court of Appeals, and for the Honorable Federal Trade Commissioner Sheila F. Anthony.  She also served as a federal investigator on numerous Internet fraud cases brought by the FTC.  For seven years, Professor Loza de Siles taught graduate cybersecurity courses with the University of Maryland Global Campus.  Her prior legal academic positions were with Duquesne University School of Law and, visiting, Howard University School of Law.

Professor Loza de Siles has been recently appointed to the Hawai‘i Supreme Court’s inaugural Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Courts.  There, she contributes on topics involving court rules regarding generative AI; research into the capabilities, limitations, and risks to the judiciary and judicial decision-making arising from the use of generative and predictive AI systems; and associated legal and ethical implications.

Since 2019, she has served on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE’s) Artificial Intelligence Policy Committee, advising the U.S. Congress, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and federal agencies on AI governance, law, and policy.  IEEE is the world’s largest technology professional association.  Professor Loza de Siles also serves on the IEEE Standards Association’s P2863 Organizational Governance of AI working group.  She also serves on the inaugural Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools’ Critical Theories Section and recently completed three years of service to that learned society’s 1300-plus member Section on Minority Groups as Chair-Elect, Chair, and Immediate Past-Chair.

Professor Loza de Siles’ award-wining scholarship centers on artificial intelligence (AI) and law, emphasizing AI governance and regulation; AI biases and AI-mediated discrimination; and AI impacts on people, liberty, democratic institutions, and the rule of law.  Her work is further distinguished as interdisciplinary and translational, bringing AI, machine learning, and other technical understandings into the law and policy literature.  Professor Loza de Siles has published and forthcoming almost forty legal publications and has given or forthcoming more than 100 presentations.

Professor Loza de Siles teaches Artificial Intelligence and Social Justice, a ground-breaking and innovative law school course that she created in 2019; Intellectual Property Law; and Property.  She also teaches the Law School’s upper-level writing required course and has sponsored a number of students’ directed research studies on compelling technology and law topics.

Professor Loza de Siles holds a technology undergraduate degree, an MBA from the University of Houston, and her law degree from The George Washington University School of Law, along with, from Georgetown University, a cybersecurity strategy management graduate certificate and with further graduate data science studies with Harvard University.

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eloza@hawaii.edu

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Classes

Course #Class TitleSemesterYear
518
Spring2023
518
Spring2023
535
Fall2023
520H
Fall2022