CodeX FutureLaw 2019:  April 4, 2019.

10:10 to 11:10:  This panel is “The Future of Legal Tech, Civil Procedure, and the Adversarial System.”

This group includes:

 

David Engstrom: Professor of Law, Associate Dean, Bernard D. Bergreen Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School.

 

 

“David Freeman Engstrom is a nationally recognized expert and award-winning scholar in civil procedure, administrative law, and constitutional law. Current work includes a major study for the Administrative Conference of the United States on AI use by federal administrative agencies and a project on the effect of emerging legal technologies on the civil justice system. He is also serving as an Associate Dean at Stanford Law School and is leading an initiative charting the school’s future work around digital technology. Beyond teaching and research, Engstrom has served as counsel or consultant to a wide range of public and private entities and is a frequent amicus before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Human-Centered AI Initiative and at CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, an M.Sc. from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University.”

 

 

Hon. Lee Rosenthal. Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas.

 

 

“Judge Rosenthal was appointed by the Chief Justice to serve on, and chair, the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, then the Standing Committee on the Rules of Practice and Procedure. She is currently the Second Vice-President of the American Law Institute, where she has been an adviser for the Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure Project, the Restatement of Employment Law, the revision to the Model Penal Code on Sexual Assault, and the Restatement on the Conflict of Laws. She served on the Board of Trustees for Rice University and is now a member of the Board of Trustees for the Baylor College of Medicine. She is the 2012 recipient of the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Award for Professionalism and Ethics given by American Inns of Court; and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.”

 

 

Pamela S. Karlan. Professor of Public Interest Law; Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford Law School.

 

 

“A productive scholar and an award-winning teacher, Pamela S. Karlan is co-director of the school’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, where students litigate live cases before the Court. One of the nation’s leading experts on voting and the political process, she has served as a commissioner on the California Fair Political Practices Commission, an assistant counsel and cooperating attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (where she received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service – the department’s highest award for employee performance – as part of the team responsible for implementing the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor). Professor Karlan is the co-author of leading casebooks on constitutional law, constitutional litigation, and the law of democracy, as well as numerous scholarly articles.

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1998, she was a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law and served as a law clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Abraham D. Sofaer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Karlan is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and the American Law Institute.”

 

 

Elizabeth Cabraser.  Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein.

 

“Under Elizabeth Cabraser’s leadership for nearly four decades, Lieff Cabraser has become one of the country’s largest law firms serving clients seeking redress for financial and consumer fraud, anti-competitive practices, harmful drugs and products, and illegal employment practices.
Possessing unparalleled expertise in complex civil litigation, Elizabeth has served as court-appointed lead, co-lead, or class counsel in scores of federal multi-district and state coordinated proceedings. These cases include multi-state tobacco, the Exxon Valdez disaster, Breast Implants, Fen-Phen (Diet Drugs), Vioxx, Toyota sudden acceleration, numerous securities/investment fraud cases, and Holocaust litigation. Today, Elizabeth serves in court-appointed leadership positions in several of the nation’s highest profile civil cases: the BP Gulf Oil Spill, GM ignition switch defect, and Takata defective airbag litigation, as well as serving as sole Lead Counsel and Chair of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the Volkswagen “Clean Diesel” Emissions litigation and the Fiat Chrysler Ecodiesel Emissions litigation.”

 

 

Jonah Gelbach. Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School.

 

 

“Jonah Gelbach’s interests in law teaching and scholarship include civil procedure, evidence, statutory interpretation, law and economics, event study methodology, applied statistical methodology, and applied microeconomics. He has taught students in JD, economics, business, and public policy programs, in courses at the JD, PhD, MBA, and undergraduate levels.

Gelbach is currently a Director of the American Law and Economics Association and is co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization.

Gelbach’s published papers in the fields of law and economics include work in the Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Law and Economics Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, among many other journals.

Gelbach has also done public-sector consulting work related to Social Security disability appeals and to the design of the system for obtaining jury venire panels.

Gelbach joined the Penn faculty in 2013, having previously been on the permanent economics faculty at the University of Maryland for nine years (1998-2007) and the University of Arizona for three (2007-2010).”

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More information coming!

Photos from:
Gelbach: Penn Law
Cabraser: Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein

 

 

Monica Bay is a Fellow at CodeX and a freelance journalist. Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu.

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