Directory
Site directory.
A plain list of what is on this site, for readers, search engines and software. Machine-readable copies: llms.txt and sitemap.xml.
About
Professor Rafael Dean Brown: legal skills teacher for more than 20 years, former US litigator, peace mediator, AI-law scholar.
AI law
AI law and regulation: publications, talks, and work on Qatar and the Middle East.
Conferences
Conference presentations and panels on AI law, international law and legal skills.
Scholarship
All publications with abstracts.
- Diplomacy in the age of AI: Legal and strategic approaches to techno-nationalism, regulatory soft power and the AI chips race (2026)
- Regulatory Autonomy and AI Sovereignty: Türkiye at a Crossroad (2026)
- Decentralized Autonomous Organization and AI Legal Personhood (2025)
- Enhancing the EU AI Act with CSR: the role of corporate social responsibility in AI regulation (2025)
- A Sandbox Approach to Regulating High-Risk Artificial Intelligence Applications (2021)
- Property ownership and the legal personhood of artificial intelligence (2020)
- Human digital thought clones: the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence for big data (2020)
- Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin (2022)
- Banking on AI: mandating a proactive approach to AI regulation in the financial sector (2020)
- Mending Lacunas in the EU’s GDPR and Proposed Artificial Intelligence Regulation (2022)
- Regulatory options for vehicle telematics devices: balancing driver safety, data privacy and data security (2023)
- Legal Aspects of Telematics for Law Enforcement (2024)
- Big Data Analytics and Its Impact on Basin Water Agreements and International Water Law: A Study of the Ramotswa Aquifer (2021)
- Materials Development in EALP Legal Writing Courses (2020)
- Language Acquisition Theory and Context in Materials Development for Second Language Writing Courses (2021)
- Towards a Qatar Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model with a Legislative Framework (2019)
Teaching and guides
Teaching method and courses, teaching philosophy, legal writing, legal skills, all guides.
- Five Levels of Legal Analysis: The Law School Exam Guide, $7.99
- Five Levels + Case Briefing Bundle, $13.99
- Legal Terminology Guide, $12.99
- LL.M. Success Guide, $10.99
- Case Reading and Briefing Guide, $8.99
- Legal Writing Guide, $10.99
- Legal English for Law Students, $9.99
- Foundations of U.S. Law Guide, $12.99
- Five Levels Exam Checklist, free