Innovation Moot Court Session

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)

In person and virtual

The conference may be recorded for future web access
and for marketing use by Osmocosm

Picking up the Scent:
Detecting the Mental State or the Intent of Parties

By: Dimitrios Ioannidis, Esq.

This year’s moot court explores if human odors can lead to criminal convictions. Can we smell guilt? Can we edit human genes to release certain smells when a person is guilty? With the popularity of of Generative AI, the complications in fair use-copyrights, could it be used to edit genes to produce the smell of guilt.

Read the full Moot problem here.

The Judges

  • Petra Butler

    Bio

  • Sophie Nappert

    Bio

  • Anthony Daimsis

    Bio

  • Anusia Gillespie

    Bio

  • Wendy J. Murphy

    Bio

The Teams

Boston University School of Law

University of Pretoria, South Africa