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I would like to introduce LawTech Asia’s response to Public Consultation on Model AI Governance Framework published on July 7, 2019. Legal Hackers Seoul has a keen interest in ethical and legal issues in AI, and we had a seminar on this issue last June. While researching AI governance issues, I came across a Model... Continue Reading…

With support and help from the #legalhackers community, we successfully completed the 1st CL+B Festival on Sep 30! Thank you everyone who participated and supported the event! Special thanks to the great panelists and the sponsors of the event (#Blockcrafters, #Hashed, Blockchain and Law Academy). Let’s continue discussing thoughts on sustainable blockchain governance onwards!... Continue Reading…

Guest Post By Alex Crowley and Mona Kalantar Over 120 attendees engaged in a vibrant discussion about the future of law and technology at Northwestern University’s first public meeting of its Law and Technology Initiative on September 5, 2019. Attendees included academics and students in computer science and law and lawyers and allied professionals from law...Continue Reading…

This is a draft abstract for a talk that I gave to the Northwestern University Computer Science faculty on April 22, 2019. The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence presents many opportunities to improve law and society. At the same time, AI presents risks and potential harms. From a Law and Computational Technologies perspective, these opportunities...Continue Reading…

This last fall, I began updating the Legal Services Innovation Index, focusing first on the Catalog of Law Firm Innovations. I have had the help of three research assistants, Northwestern second-year law students Lauren Diner, Douglas Lavey, and Yoon Hoo Lee. We’ve added 112 entries to Version 1.02 of the Law Firm Innovation Catalog, for a total...Continue Reading…

Last year’s launch of the Legal Services Innovation Index attracted much more attention than I anticipated. I knew that some would find the information useful, having been in the position of trying to gather data about innovation both as a lawyer in a law firm and a professor in a law school. But I underestimated...Continue Reading…