This is the sixth of our previews of the upcoming CodeX FutureLaw Conference 2015 (April 30, presented at Paul Brest Hall on the Stanford campus). The event is organized by CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. Roland Vogl is the Executive Director and Michael Genesereth is the Research Director.

If you’re just joining us, you can scroll down to see all the previews of the jam-backed agenda.

The last panel, at 4:30 p.m., before we all gather for the closing reception at 5:30 p.m., addresses “New Breakthroughs in Computational Law,” exploring “computable contracts; open data; legal applications of the blockchain.” In other words, money, money, money!

The moderator is Professor Bart Verheij, of the University of Groningen.  Panelists include Professor Houman Shadab, Elizabeth Stark and Aaron Wright.

> Verheij “is a tenured lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering ” [aka ALICE] and is a resident CodeX Fellow at Stanford University. His research interests “include defeasible argumentation, legal reasoning and argumentation software,” his bio notes.

> Shadab is a Professor of Law at New York Law School, and Co-Director for the Center for Business and Financial Law, he states in his bio. He’s also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions. “His research focuses on hedge funds, derivatives, securitization, commercial transactions and cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin,” according to his NYU bio.

> Stark is a founder of StartBitcoin.org, “a group of entrepreneurs building the future of digital currencies and decentralized technology,” her bio states. She is a Fellow at Coin Center, and has taught at Stanford and Yale. Stark’s been a researcher at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and co-founded Open Video Alliance. She fought against the “Stop Online Piracy Act” and other proposed restrictions on the Internet. Check out Stark’s “Big Think” video, “The Flipped Future” (The Nantucket Project).

> Wright is the Founder and Director of the Cyptocurrency Research Group, and he directs Cardozo Law School’s Tech Startup Clinic, his bio notes. Wright co-founded ArmchairGM, and sold it  to Wikia Inc. (the for-profit sister project of Wikipedia. He ran Wikia’s New York Office, and served as General Counsel and Vice President of Product and Business Development, his bios state. He worked as an associate at Patterson Belknap, and Jenner & Block, among others.

He is the co-author of a book addressing blockchain tech and the law (co-authored by Primavera De Fillip) to be published by Harvard University Press.

I hope you’ve enjoyed these previews. I’m heading west (JFK 2 SFO) in the morning; and I look forward to seeing everybody at the conference!

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Monica Bay recently retired from ALM, where she was Editor-in-Chief of Law Technology News in New York and senior editor at The Recorder in San Francisco. She is a member of the California bar. Email: mbay@stanford.edu. Twitter: @MonicaBay. Email: mbay@stanford.edu.