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Assoc Professor
School of Law
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A prolific scholar, Professor Tanner's scholarship focuses on the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on legal practice and education, privacy law in the digital age, and the rhetorical analysis of legal discourse using critical methodologies and corpus lingusitics. She has forthcoming articles in the Nevada Law Journal examining privacy as a democratic guardrail and Fourth Amendment constraints on micro-targeted persuasion, and in the Harvard Law and Policy Review analyzing judicial rhetoric post-Dobbs. Her recent publications include groundbreaking work on generative AI's impact on free speech and disinformation in the Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal and innovative methodological approaches to AI-assisted writing in Written Communication. She is also co-editor and author of the OER textbook Legal Argumentation: Reasoning & Writing About the Law and has contributed chapters to multiple books on AI, law, and rhetoric. Her work appears in titles published by Cambridge University Press and Carolina Academic Press, including contributions to Rhetorical Traditions & Contemporary Law and the forthcoming Mastering Artificial Intelligence. Her interdisciplinary research background includes work with Carnegie Mellon's CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory and the Center for Neural Basis of Cognition.