Damien Riehl Anthropic

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Books & Articles

Three West Academic books on litigation practice, plus two decades of legal-technology scholarship — on legal AI, copyright, digital forensics, and the law of emerging technology.

Publications & books

Books

Three West Academic books on litigation practice — each with an AI-interactive QR-code layer.

Articles

Two decades of legal scholarship — in law reviews, legal journals, and legal publications — all discussing how technology is transforming the law (and society).

  1. 2026

    Beyond the Chatbot: Meet the Agentic Law Firm ↗

    Bench & Bar of Minn. (May/June 2026)

  2. 2024

    AI, UPL, and the Justice Gap: A Profession at the Crossroads ↗

    81 Bench & Bar of Minn. No. 3, at 18 (2024)

  3. 2024

    AI + MSBA: Building Minnesota's Legal Future ↗

    81-Oct. Bench & Bar of Minn. 26 (2024)Open access

    Quoted by the U.S. District Court in Kohls v. Ellison, 2025 WL 66514 (D. Minn. Jan. 10, 2025). Winner, MSBA Elmer H. Wiblishauser Author's Award.

  4. 2024

    AI, Originality, and Creativity: Copyrighting All the Melodies to Avoid Accidental Infringement ↗

    27 Chap. L. Rev. 289 (2024)Open access

  5. 2024

    Evolution of the Data-Driven Lawyer ↗

    20 U. St. Thomas L.J. 368 (2024)Open access

  6. 2023

    We Need to Talk About ChatGPT: A Lawyer's Introduction to the Exploding Field of AI and Large Language Models ↗

    Bench & Bar of Minn. (May 2023)

  7. 2023

    Standardizing Legal Data to Extract Insights ↗

    AALL Spectrum, May/June 2023 (Vol. 27, No. 5)

  8. 2016–18

    Car Minus Driver: Autonomous Vehicles Driving Regulation, Liability, and Policy ↗

    Bench & Bar of Minn. (2016); 73 J. Mo. B. 264 (2017) (Parts I & II); The Computer & Internet Lawyer (2018)

    Published in three journals

  9. 2016

    Writing Briefs for Judges Who Read on Screens ↗

    Lee Marshall & Damien Riehl

    JD Supra (Mar. 9, 2016)

  10. You Can't Judge an ECF Notice by its Cover ↗

    Robins Kaplan "Briefly" / Minn. Law.

  11. 2014

    Screen Writing for Screen Reading ↗

    Eric J. Magnuson & Damien Riehl

    Minn. Law. (Apr. 17, 2014) · Robins Kaplan "Briefly"

  12. Sensors, Wearables, and Liability: The Brave New World of IoT

    Minn. Law. (print)Print only

  13. 2014

    Is "Buying" Digital Content Just "Renting" for Life? Contemplating a Digital First-Sale Doctrine ↗

    Damien A. Riehl & Jumi Kassim

    40 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 783 (2014)Open access

  14. 2014

    The Digital Death Conundrum: How Federal and State Laws Prevent Fiduciaries from Managing Digital Property ↗

    Christina L. Kunz, Damien A. Riehl, James D. Lamm & Peter J. Rademacher

    68 U. Miami L. Rev. 385 (2014)Open access

  15. 2012

    Forensic Collection of Electronic Evidence from Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing ↗

    Josiah Dykstra & Damien Riehl

    19 Rich. J.L. & Tech. 1 (2012)Open access

  16. 2001

    Peer-to-Peer Distribution Systems: Will Napster, Gnutella, and Freenet Create a Copyright Nirvana or Gehenna? ↗

    27 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 1761 (2001)Open access

    Student note — Damien was Executive Editor of the William Mitchell Law Review.

In the press

Coverage and interviews about Damien — not authored by him.