CodeX Calendar: October

Events of interest to the CodeX crowd:
CodeX Meetings: Thurday, Oct. 15, 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. (Pacific). Room N102 at Stanford Law School, or via Bluejeans link. (E-mail Roland Vogl, rvogl@law.standord.edu, to get on the list.)
Speaker: Kushagra Shrivastava, the founder of 123.AI, which is “building a large legal knowledge graph that includes lawyer directors, legal Q&As and case laws,” says Shrivastava, who is the xCMO @Kosei, and xProduct/Marketing @Google.

“Autonomous Vehicles, Predictability and Law,” Wednesday, October 21: 12:45-2 p.m. (Pacific). Harry Surdan, now an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School (and CodeX affiliated faculty) returns to Stanford to discuss how fully autonomous or “self-driving” cars and and vehicles are likely to become “an increasing presence” in the next five to 15 years. Free: register here to attend. It will be held at the Stanford Law School, room 290. (Lunch will be served.)

Lee Thomas
CodeX Speaker Series: “Law and Corpus Linguistics: Statutory Interpretation in the Age of Big Data,” Justice Thomas Lee, Associate Chief Justice, Utah Supreme Court. Thursday, Oct. 22, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. (Pacific). He will discuss how judges typically resolve problems of ambiguity using their intuition. Could a computer do a better job? Justice Lee of the Utah Supreme Court thinks so.
Free: Register here. It will be held at the Stanford Law School, room 290. (Lunch will be served.)
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Monica Bay is a CodeX Fellow and a freelance reporter for Bloomberg BNA’s Big Law Business. She is a member of the California bar. Twitter: @MonicaBay. Got an upcoming event of interest to the CodeX crowd? Ping me with the 411: mbay@codex.stanford.edu.