The 2026 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum has selected Professor of Law Jacob Noti-Victor to present his work this spring.

The forum convenes junior scholars from across the country and senior scholars at the three institutions to discuss the selected papers and explore broader legal questions. Among this year’s areas of focus is intellectual property law, the subject of Noti-Victor’s paper.

His paper, “Copyright Litigation After Generative AI,” was chosen through a double-blind selection process by scholars at all three schools. Only 10 junior scholars were chosen to present their work out of over 150 submissions. The forum aims to foster and promote academic dialogue about the selected papers, as well as broader legal issues, and strengthen ties between junior and senior professors.

Noti-Victor’s paper examines an important but underexplored way that AI is reshaping copyright law. It argues that recent moves by courts and regulators to extend copyright protection to AI-assisted works will dramatically transform how copyright claims are litigated. Because AI-generated content is often indistinguishable from human-made material, courts can no longer determine what is legally protectable by examining the work itself; they now must investigate the creative process behind it. In the case of works like screenplays, visual artworks, or music, this might require courts to reverse engineer the process of a work’s creation by examining massive, technically complex records. That will inevitably make infringement cases slower, costlier, and more vulnerable to manipulation. The paper proposes a variety of procedural and institutional reforms, including changing evidentiary disclosure requirements, designed to keep the copyright system workable.

The forum will be held on May 21-22, 2026, at Yale Law School.