At 11:20 to 12:20 on April 4, The CodeX FutureLaw 2019 panel of six people to discuss “The Future of Legal Education.”

Here are the speakers, around the world:

 

Daniel B. Rodriguez is a professor at Northwestern University Law School. He “is the Harold Washington Professor and Dean Emeritus at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, the political economy of regulation, and the interface of law & technology. He speaks widely on the subject of technological innovation and its impact on legal and professional education. He has given, or will give in the near future, keynote addresses and endowed lectures at UC Berkeley, Arkansas, Florida, San Diego, Rutgers, ITAM-Mexico, Universidad of Los Andes (Colombia), Renmin University (China), University of Hong Kong, Kobe University (Japan).”

“He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the California State University, Long Beach.”   Read more here.

 

Jay Mandal “is an entrepreneur, executive and lawyer. He was co-founder and CEO of LawPivot, an online legal Q&A solution, which the team sold to Rocket Lawyer. At Rocket Lawyer, he then served as GM of the Legal Advice Business, in charge of products that connected users to lawyers and also managed the nation-wide network of lawyers. Prior to that, he was the lead mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Apple. He began his career as a corporate and securities lawyer at Brobeck and Pillsbury. Most recently, he was Vice President of Product Partnerships and Corporate Development at Optimizely, a marketing technology company.— Jay received his J.D. from U.C. Berkeley and B.A in Economics from Stanford, and was a Fulbright Scholar to India.” See also Linkedin.

 

 

Weixing Shen “is Professor and Dean of School of Law, Tsinghua University, Beijing.” He was “awarded with the National Outstanding Young Jurist in 2014. He also serves as Executive Council Member of China Civil Law Society, Vice President of China Cyber and Information Law Society, etc. Prof. SHEN’s research interests include civil law, computational law and health law. He has published 18 books and more than 60 papers. Prof. SHEN also hosts the National Key R&D Program “Research on Intelligent Assistive Technology in the Context of Judicial Process Involving Concerned Civil and Commercial Cases” and the Major Project of National Social Science Foundation “Research on the Legal-based Governance of Internet Economy.”

 

 

Linda Alinda-Ikanza is “Head of Trial Advocacy Skills and Moots, Law Development Center. Linda is a nationally recognised innovator and award winning lawyer from Uganda. She is passionate about practicing, teaching and innovating the Law. Since 2011, she has worked tirelessly to transform the teaching of Trial Advocacy for both advocates and students in Uganda. She is currently the Head of Trial Advocacy Skills and Moots at the Law Development Centre, the sole Government Law School that trains lawyers to practise law in Uganda.

As an innovator, Linda is the founder of Nkola App, a text based messaging application that provides the informal sector in Uganda with neutral tools to prevent and resolve disputes in the workplace. Nkola App was selected as one of the Best Global Innovations of 2019 by the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law.” Read more here.

 

Alice Armitage is a “Professor Alice Armitage is a Professor and the Director of Law & at UC Hastings. In that role she supervises two innovative programs, the Startup Legal Garage and LexLab, which has created a curriculum in law and technology for students, an accelerator program for legal tech entrepreneurs, and a series of events for the legal tech community in San Francisco. She teaches classes on entrepreneurship and the use of design thinking in for-profit as well as access to justice contexts. Her research and published articles focus on the intersection of innovation and regulation.”

“Professor Armitage is a graduate of the Yale Law School where she was the first woman Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. She also has an A.B. and an M.A. in British and American Literature from Brown University.”

 

 

Dirk Hartung “is the Executive Director of Legal Technology at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. After five years at a renowned boutique firm for Press and Media Law, he joined his alma mater in 2014 as a member of the management team. He develops the technology education program for the school and hosts their summer program on legal technology and operations. He is writing a PhD on digital lawyering under professional law and unauthorized practice of law regimes. His other research focuses on computational legal studies, business analytics of the market for legal services and science based legal education. He has a particular focus on language technology in legal contexts.

He teaches Machine Learning in Law as well as Hands on Legal Technology and Introduction to Data Science for Lawyers. Dirk is a co-founder of the European Legal Tech Association and the Hamburg chapter of Legal Hackers.”

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

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