Interest in Artificial Intelligence Leads LL.M. Student to IU McKinney's IP Faculty
03/13/2020
Somto Melody Kizor-Akaraiwe paused her active law practice in Nigeria in order to expand her career interests in intellectual property law. She is an LL.M. student in the Intellectual Property Law track at IU McKinney.
Prior to enrolling in IU McKinney’s LL.M. program, Kizor-Akaraiwe practiced law in Nigeria in the area of corporate and commercial law, where she also handled the occasional pro bono criminal case. Her interest in IP law led her to Indianapolis. “I knew there were a good crop of IP professors,” she said.
Kizor-Akaraiwe plans to do more research into AI, and the attendant legal problems these innovations pose. “I am particularly aiming my research at the ethical components, discriminatory tendencies in the machine learning process, and the possible regulatory approach to same,” she said.
