Monthly Archives: November 2025

Cory Scott, Executive Director of the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection Featured in Ohio Capital Journal on AI Personhood Bill

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We are pleased to share that Cory Scott, of the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection at CSU|LAW provided testimony for a legislative proposal in Ohio addressing artificial intelligence personhood, and his insights are included in an article published by the Ohio Capital Journal.

In the piece titled “What’s in Ohio’s proposal banning AI personhood,” the article explores House Bill 469, which would prohibit AI systems from obtaining legal personhood (such as marrying an AI or holding decision-making authority within a company) and ensure that human actors are held accountable for harm caused by AI tools.

Mr. Scott’s testimony emphasized the need for legal clarity around liability and the definition of sentience or consciousness in AI systems, reinforcing that accountability must remain with the human or entity behind the technology.

Please join us in commending Mr. Scott for his engagement in this important policy discussion at the intersection of law and emerging AI regulation.

Professor Hoffman Speaks at the Executive Women’s Summit 2025

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Debbie Hoffman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at CSU College of Law, spoke on November 11, 2025, at the Executive Women’s Summit 2025 (EWS) in Santa Fe, hosted by the Women of ALICE. She joined Brooke Anderson-Tompkins, Erica Acie, and Kim Hoffman for a featured panel titled “Beyond the Hype: Leading with clArIty.”

The discussion examined how financial and technology leaders can navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies with purpose and accountability. Panelists addressed building trust and transparency around AI adoption, aligning innovation with organizational mission and risk tolerance, strengthening vendor governance, and exploring how blockchain and tokenization are shaping the future of mortgage and financial services.

Hoffman’s remarks emphasized clarity and responsible innovation as essential leadership tools for guiding technology adoption in regulated industries.

Professor Debbi Hoffman (right) speaking at the Executive Women’s Conference.

Professor Sterio Organizes and Participates in United Nations Side Event

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Professor Milena Sterio organized and participated in a side event at the United Nations 6th Committee during International Law Week, on Friday, October 31.  The event, “The Right to Equal and Inclusive Participation and the International Court of Justice: Where are the Women,” focused on the need for gender parity at the International Court of Justice.  The event was hosted by the Gender Parity at the International Court of Justice Project (Professor Sterio serves on the Steering Committee), and the American Branch of the International Law Association’s Gender Justice in International Law Committee (Professor Sterio co-chairs this Committee, which she also co-founded).  In addition, the event was co-sponsored by the United Nations Permanent Missions of Canada, Mexico, Sweden, and Singapore.  

Since its inception in 1945, there has been only six female judges on the bench of the ICJ.  In the upcoming ICJ judicial elections, out of eleven candidates thus far nominated by states, only three are women.  The side event, which featured remarks by a slate of distinguished panelists, stressed the need for equal and inclusive participation for women on the ICJ’s judicial bench, as a fundamental human right.  Professor Sterio moderated the discussion along with Dr. Jessica Corsi (University College London).  Expert panelists included Karen Ong, Deputy Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations, Prof. Nilufer Oral, International Law Commission, Prof. Jelena Pia-Commella, Member of the Commission of the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Committee, Jelena Crncevic, Special Counsel, Withers Worldwide, and Akhila Radhakrishnan, End Gender Apartheid Campaign.