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We believe that curiosity shouldn’t require a research grant or hours of free time. Forget the stuffy legal journals; the AI Law blog is a sanctuary for those who love to learn on the go. While we have a passion for making sense of peculiar laws and historic cases, we refuse to be confined by them. Our journey might lead us to the heart of a powerful documentary, the quiet world of a short story, or the unexpected brilliance of a new idea. Our promise is to seek out these gems and share them with you, creating moments of insight that fit seamlessly into your day. This is your curated dose of the fascinating, delivered daily.
Field Notes on a Sunday
The neighbors here in Champaign have pitched their party tent again. It occupies the lawn like a makeshift embassy of good times, broadcasting tasteless tunes into the dark. I pointed my phone out toward it a few times, hoping Shazam might identify the official anthem of their gathering, but the algorithm was entirely stumped.
Gocha Okreshidze
May 18, 20253 min read
Nikezation
But today... today’s meeting was different. The speaker discussed how massive corporations are “appropriating” holidays and festivals — a phenomenon where companies attempt to claim intellectual property rights over details as granular as a festival’s colors, simply by virtue of sponsoring the event.
Gocha Okreshidze
Oct 14, 20242 min read
Headless Bikes and Silent Theft: A Journey Through Urbana-Champaign
What was that supposed to mean? Just because I hid my bike in the bookstore, I’m suddenly a bad student? It is what it is. The main takeaway was that my bike was back in my possession, and no one could take that victory away from me.
Gocha Okreshidze
Aug 29, 20246 min read
The Barcode and the Bazaar
Standing just ahead of me in the queue was a famous Georgian actress — the one known for playing that effortlessly cool, aristocratic woman in My Wife’s Girlfriends. A stupid, self–deprecating joke flashed through my mind: – “What, even Mrs. Chika has to stand in the embassy queue?” – It was the sort of dark humor no one would actually laugh at, especially considering Mrs. Chika had recently passed away. Exercising a rare moment of prudence, I held my tongue.
Gocha Okreshidze
Aug 15, 20245 min read
The Antitrust Miracle
I was sitting in Antitrust class today, but I wasn’t hearing a word. The professor was going on about market concentration, but all my focus was on the small window minimized on my laptop screen. Barcelona vs. PSG. It looked hopeless. It seemed impossible.
And then, it wasn’t.
Gocha Okreshidze
Mar 8, 20171 min read
First Impressions
Hollywood, of course, offers a grotesque caricature. I understand this. However, a person still always arms themselves with certain perceptions and carries a carefully selected set of expectations about how reality should “play out”.
Gocha Okreshidze
Nov 11, 20161 min read
A Different Kind of Faith
The Cubs — a century-long drought, ended suddenly and so spectacularly.
My thoughts immediately drifted to my professor; the one who carried his loyalty to the Cubs like a heavy generational burden, a symbol of faith long resigned to misfortune. I tried to imagine what he was feeling in that exact moment — wondering whether his unperturbed, academic composure had finally cracked.
Gocha Okreshidze
Nov 2, 20161 min read
The Performance of Certainty
A sterile, suffocating consensus permeates the air. In polite society, and particularly within these hallowed academic walls, “Trump” is no mere candidate — he is a moral contagion, an all-encompassing social faux pas. Performative disgust toward him has become the inevitable toll extracted from anyone wishing to participate in public discourse.
Gocha Okreshidze
Nov 1, 20162 min read
Roe
... our professor invited a guest speaker — and not just anyone, but a judge from California! He was a Chinese-American man, lean as a legal brief, perhaps in his mid-forties, who held strikingly conservative views. This immediately thrilled me; our professor is known for his own staunch, passionately liberal opinions, so inviting someone with a diametrically opposed perspective spoke volumes about his broad-mindedness. This is the essence of true academic debate!
Gocha Okreshidze
Oct 18, 20162 min read
Hello
I spotted the fellow I’d had such a wonderful time playing beer pong with just last night. He walked right past me in the hallway, failing to even utter a greeting! “Wow,” I thought, “he must be deeply lost in thought, undoubtedly already preparing for his classes!”
Gocha Okreshidze
Aug 29, 20163 min read
The Oath
The moment I set foot on the campus grounds, it felt like a living organism. The lawns — manicured with such exacting precision it seemed even the grass was strictly adhering to established rules and regulations — were overflowing with people. I knew instantly that I was witnessing the genesis of something momentous.
Gocha Okreshidze
Aug 22, 20163 min read
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