Sun And Chatbots @ CodeX FutureLaw
Columnist Monica Bay on her favorite conference of the year: CodeX FutureLaw 2017, at Stanford Law.
As I’m writing this, the entire state of Connecticut is covered with snow, snow and more snow. So much snow that we are officially forbidden by our governor, Dannel Malloy, to drive our cars. So I can’t wait to head to sunny California for my favorite conference of each year: the CodeX FutureLaw 2017, at Stanford Law School. This year’s event will be on April 6, at Paul Brest Hall. (Obvious disclaimer: I’m a Fellow at CodeX.)
KEYNOTE
This year’s FutureLaw is CodeX’s fifth — and the agenda gets more intriguing every year. The opening keynote will be delivered by Professor Gillian Hadfield, who is the Richard L. and Antoinette Schamoi Kirkland Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She is the director of the U.S.C. Center for Law and Social Science.
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Hadfield “studies the design of legal and dispute resolution systems in advanced and developing market economies; the markets for law, lawyers and dispute resolution; contract law and theory; economic analysis of law; and regulation of legal markets and legal profession.” Among her recent publications are Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy (Oxford University Press (affiliate link)).
MORNING PANELS
The Perils and Promise of Predictive Analytics in Law will discuss how “predictive analytics in the law began in areas of high-stakes corporate litigation, such as in the I.P. or securities law space,” notes the agenda. “More recently, researchers and legal tech entrepreneurs are pushing to bring predictive analytics to other areas of the law, including consumer law, legal aid and government.” Panelists: Josh Becker, Dr. Gipsy Escobar, Prof. Daniel Martin Katz, John Nay and Dera Nevin.
The Rule Systems Panel. “Computational Law is the branch of legal informatics concerned with the mechanization of legal analysis,” the agenda explains. “Predictive analytics has brought the power of Big Data and computer processing to predicting the odds of certain legal outcomes. Traditional ‘rule-based’ approaches, on the other hand, can offer advantages in building systems capable of effective legal analysis.” Panelists: Prof. Michael Genesereth (Research Director at CodeX), plus Michael Mills, Abhijeet Mohapatra; Harry Surden and Manik Suri.
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AFTERNOON PANELS
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The Rise of the Legal Chatbots. The panel will discuss how chatbots have emerged as useful tools in collecting information and advancing legal tools in immigration, healthcare, traffic tickets, and other roles. The speakers will showcase chatbots systems and discuss important issues. Participants: Joshua Browder, Artem Goldman, Joshua Lenon, Prof. Norman Spaulding, Kevin Xu, Andrey Zinoviev.
The @5 Lightning Round will address:
• The 5 Things You Want to Know About the Final Report of the American Bar Association’s “Commission on Legal Services.”
• Revisiting Jim Sandman’s 2016 List of 10 Impediments to Innovation In Legal Services and the 5 Levers of Change Jim Wants us to Focus on this Year.
• 5 Reasons Why Law Firms Should Embrace Matter Standards.
• 5 Reforms to Legal Education That Are Key for Law Schools to Implement in the Age of the Robolawyer. Participants: Jeannette Eicks, Judy Perry Martinez, Jim Sandman and Adam Stock.
The Customer Roundtable: “Law firm lawyers, in-house counsel, CIOs, legal operations professionals and legal librarians alike find themselves surrounded by a number of new legal technologies and platforms,” notes the agenda. “Law firms are facing more demanding clients who require more value and transparency. Clients are increasingly using alternative legal service providers over law firms.”
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Registration here.
MCLE: 5.5 general hours.
Parking here.
Monica Bay is a Fellow at CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics and a freelance writer for Above The Lawand other media. She co-hosts Law Technology Now (Legal Talk Network) and is a member of the California Bar. Monica can frequently be found at Yankee Stadium. Email: monicabay1@gmail.com. Twitter: @MonicaBay.
