
Gregory Dickinson
Gregory Dickinson is assistant professor of law at the University of Nebraska, where he teaches contracts, business torts and unfair competition, the common law, and remedies, as well as a fellow with the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science, and Technology. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School (2010, cum laude). Before his current appointment, he practiced at Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston and at two Rochester firms, with a year in between as a law clerk for Judge Richard Wesley of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. While in full-time practice, he also served as a nonresident fellow at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. The combination of his computer science and legal training has drawn him toward technology-related issues in commercial law, which are the focus of his work. Professor Dickinson's research focuses on the interaction between private law and technology. One major area of interest is how the common law responds to technological innovation and can be harnessed to complement the more particular statutory and regulatory schemes layered atop it. A second branch of his work explores how the tools of machine learning and artificial intelligence can be brought to bear on traditional legal questions. Through computational analysis of large bodies of case law, his research seeks to provide a more systematic view of our legal system and doctrines and to guide legal reforms and policy decisions. His work has appeared in leading journals including the Boston College Law Review, Stanford Technology Law Review, and Administrative Law Review.