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Sam Roland
Research Fellow, Foundation for American Innovation
Sam Roland is a research fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, where he works on permitting, energy, and AI policy. He is a JD candidate at George Mason University's Scalia Law School and writes the Statutory Alpha newsletter.
Articles
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Dialogue ·
Is AI Legal Assistance the Unauthorized Practice of Law?
A structured disagreement about UPL doctrine, consumer protection, and the access-to-justice gap — and whether the licensing bar is protecting clients or protecting lawyers.
By Sam Roland
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Treatise ·
Agency Without Agents: Fitting Autonomous AI into the Restatement (Third)
The common law of agency is our most developed body of law about one intelligence acting on behalf of another. As AI systems begin to transact, negotiate, and act with real autonomy, how far does the doctrine stretch — and where exactly does it break?
By Sam Roland
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Analysis ·
The Verification Duty: What the Mata Sanctions Cases Actually Require
Courts stopped debating whether lawyers may use generative AI almost immediately. Three years of sanctions decisions since Mata v. Avianca converge on a narrower, harder question: what does it mean to verify?
By Sam Roland