The CodeX FutureLaw Conference 2018 will be @ the Paul Brest Hall at Stanford University on April 5.

In no particular order, we’re previewing the upcoming presentations at CodeX FutureLaw. Information about how to attend is at the bottom of this post! Links: Agenda.  Registration.

 

 

 

THE TITLES
“Welcome & Opening Keynote” and “Closing Keynote.”

THE TIME
9 a.m. Welcome (Roland Vogl) and Opening Keynote (Hilarie Bass).
5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Closing Keynote (Deborah Rhode)

THE PRESENTERS

Dr. Roland Vogl is Executive Director of CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics; Executive Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology; Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School.

Dr. Vogl “is a lawyer, scholar and media entrepreneur who, after nearly 15 years of professional and academic experience, has developed a strong expertise in intellectual property and media law, innovation, and legal informatics. Currently, he is Executive Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology and a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School. He focuses his efforts on legal informatics work carried out at CodeX, which he co-founded and leads as Executive Director. Also, he researches international technology law through the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum, a think-tank dedicated to transatlantic tech law and policy issues. Dr. Vogl initiated and spearheaded the development of the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange, a Stanford research initiative focused on solving content licensing inefficiencies in higher education. The initiative was spun off from Stanford in Fall of 2012 as a privately held company, SIPX Inc., which was acquired by ProQuest LLC in 2015.”

“Dr. Vogl holds both a Dr.iur. (JSD) and a Mag.iur. (JD) from Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria as well as a JSM from Stanford Law School.” Read the full information here.

 

Hilarie Bass is President, American Bar Association and Co-President, Greenberg Traurig.

“As Co-President of international law firm Greenberg Traurig and a prolific trial attorney with a highly successful 30-plus year career, Hilarie Bass is one of the most recognized women attorneys in the United States. She is currently President of the American Bar Association, the world’s largest voluntary professional organization with more than 400,000 members. At Greenberg Traurig, she helps chart the course for the multi-practice firm with approximately 2,000 attorneys across 38 offices worldwide. She currently serves on the firm’s Executive Committee and previously served an eight-year term as national chair of its 600-member litigation department. Hilarie is also the founder and former chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Women’s Initiative.”

“Hilarie has successfully represented high-profile corporate clients in jury and non-jury trials involving hundreds of millions of dollars in controversy. She has worked and settled more than 100 cases, tried more than 20 cases to conclusion, and argued numerous appeals. In recognition of that success, she was inducted into The American College of Trial Lawyers. Hilarie is widely recognized for her pro bono work on behalf of two foster children that led to the elimination and declaration as unconstitutional Florida’s 20-year- old ban on gay adoption.” Read the full information here.

 

Professor Deborah Rhode is Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Director, Center on the Legal Profession.

She “is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, the director of the Center on the Legal Profession, and the director of the Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford University. She is the most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics. She has received the American Bar Association’s Michael Franck Award for contributions to the field of professional responsibility; the American Bar Foundation’s W. M. Keck Foundation Award for distinguished scholarship on legal ethics, the American Bar Foundation’s Outstanding Scholar Award, the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award for her work on expanding public service opportunities in law schools, and the White House’s Champion of Change Award for a lifetime’s work in increasing access to justice. She is the founding chair of the Association of American Law School’s section on leadership, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and vice chair of the board of Legal Momentum (formerly the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund).”

“Professor Rhode graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Yale College and received her legal training from Yale Law School. After clerking for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, she joined the Stanford faculty. Read the full information here.

 

 

 

April 5

Registration here.

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5: 30 p.m. @ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall  (555 Salvatierra Walk), Stanford, Calif. 94305 United States.
Google Map

Agenda.

MCLE Credit: 5.5 General Hours.

Also: “Legal Tech Founders: Then and Now.”  April 4, 12:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.

Compiled by Monica Bay, CodeX Fellow.

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