{"id":9792,"date":"2026-04-07T20:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:45:41","slug":"assessing-risk-protecting-personal-data-an-eu-approach-to-artificial-intelligence-as-a-model-for-the-a-b-a-s-model-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/volume-27\/volume-27-issue-3\/assessing-risk-protecting-personal-data-an-eu-approach-to-artificial-intelligence-as-a-model-for-the-a-b-a-s-model-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Risk &amp; Protecting Personal Data: An EU Approach to Artificial Intelligence as a Model for the A.B.A.\u2019s Model Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/Article_COOK_Final.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"none\" data-download=\"off\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Article_COOK_Final<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This Article is the first to examine the risk that attorneys\u2019 use of generative artificial intelligence (\u201cAI\u201d) in legal practice poses to personal data and offer a comparison of the American Bar Association\u2019s (\u201cA.B.A.\u201d) and European Union\u2019s (\u201cEU\u201d) differing approaches to providing guardrails for the use of AI technology. It is also the first to suggest the A.B.A. consider integrating the EU\u2019s risk-based AI classification system and data protection requirements into its Model Rules of Professional Conduct.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PDF: https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/Article_COOK_Final.pdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author: Jennifer J. Cook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volume 27, Issue 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Article is the first to examine the risk that attorneys\u2019 use of generative artificial intelligence (\u201cAI\u201d) in legal practice poses to personal data and offer a comparison of the American Bar Association\u2019s (\u201cA.B.A.\u201d) and European Union\u2019s (\u201cEU\u201d) differing approaches to providing guardrails for the use of AI technology. It is also the first to <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/volume-27\/volume-27-issue-3\/assessing-risk-protecting-personal-data-an-eu-approach-to-artificial-intelligence-as-a-model-for-the-a-b-a-s-model-rules\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[726],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9794,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions\/9794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}