Stranahan National Issues Forum
The Unitary AI Executive
Thursday, Oct. 23 | Noon-1 p.m.
Law Center, McQuade Law Auditorium
Alan Rozenshtein
In the short-to-medium term, the proliferation of powerful AI systems is poised to dramatically concentrate power within the executive branch, potentially at the expense of Congress, the judiciary, and the public. Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law will discuss his recent paper, outlining five key vectors through which AI is likely to augment presidential authority, with a particular focus on the ultimate realization of a long-held constitutional theory: the unitary executive.
Alan Rozenshtein
Professor Alan Rozenshtein joined the Minnesota Law School as a visiting professor in 2017. In 2019, he became an associate professor of law and earned tenure in 2024. He is the research director and a senior editor at Lawfare, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network. He was previously an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and a visiting faculty fellow at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
From Oct. 2014 to April 2017, he served as an attorney advisor in the Office of Law and Policy in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where his work focused on operational, legal, and policy issues relating to cybersecurity and foreign intelligence. From Oct. 2016 to April 2017, he served as a special assistant United States attorney for the District of Maryland. During this time, he taught cybersecurity at Georgetown Law.
Before joining the Justice Department, Professor Rozenshtein clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. While attending Harvard Law School, he was a Heyman Fellow, served as articles editor for the Harvard Law Review, and was a contributor to Lawfare.
About the lecture
This free, public lecture is part of the Stranahan National Issues Forum and is sponsored by The University of Toledo College of Law and the Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership. For a list of guest speakers and lecture videos from previous years, please visit our past speakers page. To view photos from last year's lecture, visit our Flickr album. Food and drink will be provided.
Parking
McQuade Law Auditorium is on the main level of the Law Center — located at 1825 West Rocket Drive, immediately inside the UToledo West Entrance off of Secor Road and south of Bancroft Street. Free guest parking is available for this event, but only in designated spaces within Parking Area 12W. Look for the cones and parking attendant for the designated area. Metered parking is also available within marked spaces facing the Center for Performing Arts. Metered rates can be found at the payment kiosk or the ParkUToledo website.