CodeX —and its off-spring— have been honored in the second annual Innovation Awards from ALM’s The Recorder.

CodeX, lead by Roland Vogl and Michael “Mike” Genesereth, was chosen in both the “Incubators” and the “Ideas” categories. Click here for the CodeX incubators story by Patience Haggin and a bigger version of the fantastic photo by Jason Doiy.

Said Haggin: “CodeX, with its erudite and almost-dusty official name of the Center of Legal Informatics, was founded as an academic research center. But, perhaps with its prime tech-friendly placement within Stanford Law School, CodeX has become what its executive director Roland Vogl calls ‘an inadvertent incubator.’ ”

The article cites Lex Machina, Law Gives and SIPX and mentions our Thursday afternoon meetings and Ian Wetherbee‘s presentation on the revamped Google Patent Search.

In a separate story about the “Ideas” award, for computational contracts, Haggin profiled Harm Bavinck‘s work creating self-enforcing contracts.

CodeX related winners also included:

• Litigation Analytics: Lex Machina (recently sold to LexisNexis).” Story by Scott Graham.

• Judge Analytics:  Ravel Law. Story by Ginny LaRoe.

• Legal Tech Design:  Stanford Law School. Story by Haggin (profiles lecturer Margaret Hagan.)

This year’s winners were celebrated at a Dec. 8 event.

Said Greg Mitchell, Editor in Chief of The Recorder: “Apart from shining a well-deserved spotlight on these ideas, institutions and individuals, we hope these profiles can do something more. We hope they will spark innovative thinking–or at least fast following. After all—and please, cover the ears of IP lawyers—imitation remains the sincerest form of flattery.”

The full 2015 roster is here.

Monica Bay is a Fellow at CodeX. She was a Senior Editor at The Recorder for 13 years and was Editor in Chief of  Law Technology News for 17 years before retiring from ALM in February.  @MonicaBay. Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu.