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Vern Walker

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'''Vern R. Walker''' is a Professor Emeritus of Law and Director of the Research Laboratory for Law, Logic and Technology at [[Maurice A. Deane School of Law]], [[Hofstra University]].

==Education==
Walker got his B.A. degree from the [[University of Detroit Mercy]] in 1967 and two years later got his M.A. in [[philosophy]] from the [[University of Notre Dame]]. In 1975, as an Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellow he got Ph.D. in the same field from the same alma mater. From 1979 to 1980 he served as an editor of the ''[[Yale Law Journal]]'' at [[Yale Law School]] from which he graduated with a J.D. in 1980.<ref name=hofstra></ref>

==Career==
In 1990 and 1995 Walker was a full member of the ''[[Hofstra Law Review]]'' and after serving as visiting scholar the following year, became an assistant professor of philosophy at [[Creighton University]]. There he assisted in the study of [[scientific method]]ology, [[artificial intelligence|AI]] and [[computer]]s, and [[bioethics]]. From 1997 to 1999 he was vice president of Risk Assessment & Policy Association, serving after it a two year term as its president-elect and then served as its president for another two years from 2001 to 2003 while serving briefly at the Individual Residency of the Rockefeller Foundation's Study and Conference Center.<ref name=hofstra/>

Walker is serving on the editorial boards of such journals as the ''Artificial Intelligence & Law and Law, Probability and Risk'', as well as on the editorial review board for the ''International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems''. Before joining Hofstra, he worked for [[Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman]] and practiced [[administrative law]], [[computer simulation]], [[environmental chemistry]], [[medicine]], [[pharmacology]], [[statistics]] and [[toxicology]].<ref name=hofstra/>

Walker served for the [[District of Columbia Court of Appeals]], the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]], the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit]] and the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia]] and is a member of the [[American Bar Association]], the [[Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence]], the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law, and the Society for Risk Analysis.<ref name=hofstra/>

==References==


[[Category:University of Detroit Mercy alumni]]
[[Category:University of Notre Dame alumni]]
[[Category:Yale Law School alumni]]
[[Category:Creighton University faculty]]
[[Category:Hofstra University faculty]]
[[Category:American Bar Association]]
[[Category:Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence]]


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