Professor

Matthew

Sag

Matthew Sag is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School. Professor Sag is the founder of the Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence, and he is a world-leading expert on the intersection of copyright law and text data mining, machine learning, and generative AI. He is also a sought after speaker on the broader implications of generative AI and its use as a legal technology. In July 2023, he testified to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Intellectual Property in relation to copyright and Generative AI and his research is published in leading journals such as Nature and Science, California Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. 

Professor Sag was born and educated in Australia. He earned honors in Law at the Australian National University and clerked for Justice Paul Finn at the Australian Federal Court. Professor Sag practiced law in London as an associate at Arnold & Porter, and in Silicon Valley with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He joined the Emory faculty in 2022 where he teaches courses on copyright law, Law & AI, and Property. He plays with his dogs and runs marathons in his spare time.