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Ryan Abbott

Mediator and Arbitrator, JAMS; Professor of Law and Health Sciences, University of Surrey

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About

Ryan Abbott is a mediator, arbitrator, and court-appointed neutral with JAMS, handling intellectual property, health care, life sciences, and technology disputes. He is Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law and Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and is a licensed physician, a patent attorney in California and New York, a solicitor advocate in England and Wales, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He wrote The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and leads the Artificial Inventor Project, the pro bono series of test cases behind the world's first patent granted for an invention made by an AI. He co-created the JAMS AI Dispute Resolution Rules and holds an M.D. from UC San Diego, a J.D. from Yale, and a Ph.D. from Surrey. At Legal Cyber Academy, Ryan Abbott teaches on the ethics of using ChatGPT, including its pitfalls and effective uses.

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