Peter N. Salib
Peter N. Salib
I am an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston. I am also Law and Policy Advisor to the Center for AI Safety, Executive Co-Director of the Center for Law and AI Risk, and a Contributing Editor at Lawfare.
Currently, I am thinking and writing about what law and legal institutions can do to help reduce catastrophic and existential risk from advanced AI systems.
I also think about the structure of constitutional rights, often as an optimization problem.
You can reach me at psalib@uh.edu.
My cv is here.
My SSRN page is here.
Writing
Law of Artificial Intelligence
AI Rights for Human Safety, Virginia L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) (with Simon Goldstein).
Abolition by Algorithm, Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).
· Selected for Michigan Junior Scholars Conference
· Selected for University of Chicago International Junior Scholars Forum
· Selected for Emory Legal Scholars Roundtable on AI
AI Outputs Are Not Protected Speech, Wash. U. L. Rev. (2024).
· Finalist for Carnegie Endowment AI Liability Scholarship Prize
· Selected for Yale Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference
Big Data Affirmative Action, 117 Northwestern U. L. Rev. 821 (2022).
· Selected for Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum
· Selected for Midwest Law and Economics Association Annual Conference
Artificially Intelligent Class Actions, 100 Tex. L. Rev. 101 (2022)
Complex Algorithmic Law, U. Chi. L. Rev Online (2022).
Net Versus Relative Impacts in Public Policy Automation: A Conjoint Analysis of Attitudes of Black Americans, AI & Society (with Ryan Kennedy, Amanda Austin, Michael Adams, and Carroll Robinson) (2024).
Algorithmic Discrimination and Health Equity (with Jessica L. Roberts) in Research Handbook on Health, AI, and the Law (2024).
AI Will Not Want to Self-Improve, in Lawfare Digital Social Contract Whitepapers (2024).
DeepSeek Points Toward U.S.-China Cooperation, Not a Race, Lawfare (2025) (with Simon Goldstein)
Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of AGI, Lawfare (2025) (with Simon Goldstein)
Rogue AI Moves Three Steps Closer, Lawfare (2024)
OpenAI's Latest Model Shows AGI Is Inevitable. Now What?, Lawfare (2024) (with Kevin Frazier & Alan Z. Rozenshtein)
AI Risk and the Law of AGI, Lawfare (2024) (with Simon Goldstein).
AI Safety Laws Are Not (Necessarily) a First Amendment Problem, Lawfare (2024) (with Doni Bloomfield & Alan Z. Rozenshtein).
OpenAI No Longer Takes Safety Seriously, Lawfare (2024).
Open Questions in Law and AI Safety, Lawfare (2024) (with Yonathan A. Arbel, Ryan Copus, Kevin Frazier, Noam Kolt, Alan Z. Rozenshtein, Chinmayi Sharma, and Matthew Tokson).
From Fake News to Fake Views, Lawfare (2023) (with Nik Guggenberger).
Constitutional Law
The Goose and the Gander: How Conservative Precedents Will Save Campus Affirmative Action, 102 Tex. L. Rev. 124 (2023) (with Guha Krishnamurthi).
The Pigouvian Constitution, 88 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1081 (2021).
Justices on Yachts: A Value Over Replacement Theory, S. Cal. L. R. Online (forthcoming 2024) (with Guha Krishnamurthi).
Qualified Immunity as Gun Control , 99 Notre Dame L. R. Online 93 (2024) (with Guha Krishnamurthi).
Nullification in Abortion Prosecutions: An Equilibrium Theory, 72 Duke L. J. Online 41 (2022) (with Guha Krishnamurthi).
Small Arms Races, U. Chi. L. Rev. Online (2022) (with Guha Krishnamurthi).
Ban Them All; Let the Courts Sort Them Out: Saving Clauses, the Texas Abortion Ban, and the Structure of Constitutional Rights, 100 Tex. L. Rev. Online 13 (2021).
Post-Election Litigation and the Paradox of Voting, U. Chi. L. Rev. Online (2021) (with Guha Krishnamurthi).
Principal Officers and the Function of Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, 54 U. C. Davis L. Rev. Online 89 (2021) (with Guha Krishnamurthi).
Bostock and Conceptual Causation, Yale J. Reg. Notice & Comment (2020) (with Guha Krishnamurthi).
The Federal–State Standing Gap: How to Enforce Federal Law in Federal Court Without Article III Standing, 26 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 1155 (2018) (with David K. Suska).
Why Prison?: An Economic Critique, 22 Berkeley J. Crim. L. 111 (2017).
Reparations, Constitutionality, and the Model of Civil Damages, 57 Tulsa L. Rev. 101 (2021) (with Guha Krishnamurthi) (symposium).
Student Comment
The Law of Banksy: Who Owns Street Art?, 83 U. Chi. L. Rev. 2293 (2016).