Over the past few years, we have hosted a number of conferences devoted to various sub-topics in legal innovation including The Make Law Better Conference, Fin Legal Tech Conference and the Block Legal Tech Conference. We have aggregated videos from these events on TheLawLabChannel.com for you to enjoy at your convenience.
Lots has happened since Mike and I launched this site back in 2009 including a much larger community of folks interested in Computational Law. See the picture above from the Second Post on this blog.
We are rebooting Computational Legal Studies after a ~16 month break and back filling it with content that we have posted on other platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
It is good to be back pursuing the Computational Legal Agenda through this site.
We have a bunch of things in the works including our book “Legal Informatics” which is being released by Cambridge University Press in February 2021!
Best,
Daniel Martin Katz & Michael Bommarito
Yesterday we had our Introductory Pre Session of the Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials … the video for our intro session in now available on YouTube (see video above).
The official first session begins in earnest Monday June 29th Noon US Central / 700pm CEST. It is not too late to join us if you still want to sign up for FREE — https://techsummer.law-school.de/
And the conversation continues at #BuceriusLegalTech …
See you on Monday !
ARE YOU READY? Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials starts this week with our Intro Session on Thursday (regular sessions begin on Monday June 29th) … Over 3200+ Participants from 90+ Countries and the Conversation continues at #BuceriusLegalTech …
You can still Sign up today for FREE — https://techsummer.law-school.de/
Thanks as always to Baker McKenzie for Sponsoring and thank you to our global academic and organizational partners (Stanford CodeX, Chicago Kent & European Legal Technology Association) !
Dirk Hartung and I also would like to also thank our Confirmed Lecturers — Roland Vogl Janis Beckedorf Alma Asay Liam Brown David Perla Daniel W. Linna Jr. Gloria Sanchez J.B. Ruhl How Khang Lim William Henderson Corinna Coupette Shannon Salter Richard Susskind Markus Hartung Mary O’Carroll Daniel B. Rodriguez Mari Sako John Duggan Lucy Endel Bassli Riikka Koulu David Cambria Valérie Saintot …
#legaltech #legalinnovation #legalops #lawschool #legaleducation #law #makelawbetter #legalai #legalprofession
In the past week (and weekend) I have taught classes via Zoom for my school (Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent – shown below) as well as University of Toronto Law and IE Law in Spain (early this morning) … Thanks to Chicago Kent Alums – Jason Dirkx (Littler Mendelson) and Amy Monaghan (Perkins Coie) for joining us in the virtual class!
On the final leg of my European Visit, I was honored to participate in kickoff event for the new Maastricht Law & Tech Lab here at the St. Jan Church – today I talked about the {Past, Present & Future of NLP & Law} here at Maastricht University. Thanks to Gijs van Dijck Catalina Goanta Constanta Rosca and others from Maastricht for organizing the event! legaltech #legalinnovation #legaldata #AlforLaw
Today Professor Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem of Bucerius Law School — Former Justice on the German (Supreme) Constitutional Court – provided the Opening Lecture at the Bucerius Summer School in Legal Technology & Operations … Many more Lectures to follow over the next three weeks !
Today I taught the Legal Prediction Module in the Legal Informatics Course at Stanford CodeX. Thanks to Roland Vogl, Michael Genesereth, Susan Salkind, Jameson Dempsey and the students for having me! #LegalInformatics #LegalTech #LegalData #LegalPrediction
Exciting to teach my Legal Informatics + Technology Course here in the GPLLM Program as a Visiting Professor here at the University of Toronto Law — #LegalTech #LegalData #LegalInnovation #MakeLawBetter #LegalEducation
It was a very nice day here at the 2019 Stanford CodeX Future Law Conference – connected with some old friends and new friends — Dirk Hartung Dazza Greenwood Pablo Arredondo Brian W Tang Jerrold Soh and many others !
We are very happy to partner with our friends at Reed Smith on this program. Congrats to Arthur Surratt III from Chicago Kent College of Law for being selected as an inaugural Legal Technology Summer Associate! #LegalTechRising
Very excited to be here for the Futures Conference of the College of Law Practice Management. Tonight I will be induced as as Fellow of the College (along with a range of other inductees).
There is an old adage which states that “Innovation is doing the obvious before it is obvious to others.” Suffice to say – this is a totally obvious but it also very correct. Getting at least some STEM folks to help lead law forward is really important for the future of this field. So kudos to Harvard for doing this – particularly because as they say in the NFL — this is a ‘copycat league.’
“School officials particularly hope to lure students interested in science, technology, engineering and math to the field of law, because advanced technical knowledge and skills are in demand. “It’s incredibly valuable to have your attorney understand the underlying biology or the underlying coding systems or the underlying physics that are driving the legal questions,” said Jessica Soban, associate dean for admissions and strategic initiatives.
It is worth noting that this quote frames the effort as working to develop lawyers for technology – which is the right way to sell this idea to a conservative (intelligent but not technically inclined) faculty.
The obvious flip side of this is that some subset of these same folks will also help champion technology (and innovation) for law itself. I would expect HLS to try to make some sort of play in this direction (but would need more folks with relevant technical skills on the core faculty) … perhaps they could consider a Joint Venture with that other academic institution in Cambridge ?
I am pleased to serve as a Program Chair and Speaker at the Plenary Presidential Summit @ New York State Bar Association Annual Meeting. Today’s topic will be Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on the Legal Profession. Joining me on the panel are the following panelists covering the following topics:
What is Artificial Intelligence? What is Machine Learning?
Dera J. Nevin, eDiscovery Counsel, Proskauer
What are Some Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Predictive Analytics in Law?
Andrew M.J. Arruda, CEO & Co-Founder, Ross Intelligence
Daniel Martin Katz, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Law, Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent Law
What are the Labor Market Impacts? More Jobs, Less Jobs, Different Forms of Legal Jobs and Legal Work?
Noah Waisberg, J.D., Co-founder & CEO, Kira Systems
