Rehumanizing Education in an Age of AI

William H. J. Hubbard received his JD with high honors from the Law School in 2000, where he was executive editor of the Law Review. He clerked for the Hon. Patrick E. Higginbotham of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. From 2001 to 2006, he practiced law as a litigation associate at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago where he specialized in commercial litigation, electronic discovery, and appellate practice. From 2006 to 2011, he completed the PhD program in Economics at the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty in 2011, he was a Kauffman Legal Research Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the Law School.

His current research primarily involves economic analysis of litigation, courts, and civil procedure. He is the author of the casebook Civil Procedure: An Integrated Approach (2021) and is co-author of Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India (2023). He is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and was Editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 2013-2024.

Emily Lynn Osborn is a faculty member in the Department of History and the College at the University of Chicago, and the Master of the New Collegiate Division. Her scholarship focuses on the social, political, and technological histories of Francophone West Africa. She is the Faculty Director of UChicago’s Senegal Study Abroad CIV and is a recipient of the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Osborn chaired the Artificial Intelligence and Education Working Group (AIEWG) in 2025, which resulted in a report on AI and its role in our educational mission. She is currently chairing a university Writing Advisory Group (WAG) that is developing principles and recommendations for teaching and learning with text in the AI landscape.

David Albertson is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Southern California and an award-winning teacher and writer. He is the author of five books and three dozen articles in medieval philosophy, medieval mysticism, and philosophy of religion.

Albertson received his B.A. in Religious Studies from Stanford University and Ph.D. in Religion from the University of Chicago, after which he spent a year at the Universität zu Köln in Germany with a Fulbright Fellowship before arriving at USC. His most recent works are The Geometry of Christian Contemplation: Measure without Measure (Oxford University Press, 2025) and Cusanus Today: Thinking with Nicholas of Cusa between Philosophy and Religion (The Catholic University of America Press, 2024). His next book, co-authored with political philosopher Jason Blakely, is Utopia for Our Century: A Manifesto of Hope (Yale University Press, 2026).

Albertson’s first book, Mathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of Chartres (Oxford University Press, 2014), won the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Prize from the Universität Heidelberg. His research has been supported by multiple grants from the NEH and fellowships from the ACLS, The Huntington Library, and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Most recently he was a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin and was appointed J. E. & Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visiting Professor of Catholic Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Albertson is past President of the American Cusanus Society and serves on the Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Cusanus-Gesellschaft at the Universität Trier.

His current projects include editing the Cambridge Companion to Nicholas of Cusa and translating monastic letters and treatises from the late medieval Tegernsee controversy with K. Meredith Ziebart and Thomas Izbicki for Peeters Press.

In 2020, Albertson founded the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought, now affiliated with the In Lumine Network, a national consortium of Catholic institutes supported by the John Templeton Foundation. He writes for Commonweal and America Magazine. 

Dr. Melanie Barrett is Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake / Mundelein Seminary, a graduate Catholic diocesan seminary located in Mundelein, Illinois. She holds two doctorates: (1) a Ph.D. in religious ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School; and (2) an S.T.D. (Sacred Theology Doctorate) in moral theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She also holds an S.T.L. (Licentiate in Sacred Theology) in dogmatic theology. She teaches courses on Catholic social doctrine; the ethics of sex, marriage, and family; virtue theory; and philosophical ethics. She is a member of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the Academy of Catholic Theology. Currently, she is completing a book on suffering and the moral life in the theology of Thomas Aquinas.