CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
Legal Tech Start-Up Showcase: Government, Citizenship & Privacy
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome and check out the latest in legal tech start-ups! The companies participating at this upcoming CodeX Legal Tech Start-Up Showcase focus on leveraging technology to increase efficiency in legislation, the legal profession and public participation. Lunch will be served. Speakers/companies: · Aaron Greenspan, Founder of Plainsite PlainSite, a platform that encourages innovation and participation […]
CodeX Speaker Series with Daniel Katz: “Quantitative Legal Prediction – or – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Preparing for the Data Driven Future of the Legal Services Industry”
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesDo I have a case? What is our likely exposure? How much is this going to cost? Are these documents relevant? What will happen if we leave this particular provision out of this contract? How can we best staff this particular legal matter? For many years the answers to these questions have been the exclusive […]
Assisted Decision Making: Big Data and the Law
Viewing the law as data reveals trends and patterns of how courts, judges, attorneys, and parties function. This knowledge can facilitate the analysis of how courts work and how courts decide cases. Professor Blackman will discuss and demonstrate "Assisted Decision Making." With "Assisted Decision Making" technology, attorneys can improve the representation of their clients through […]
CodeX: Privacy Icons Legal Hackathon
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSatellite Event (This is a satellite event of the main hackathon at Mozilla.) People rarely read privacy policies, but they're important. So let's make it easier for users to understand the most meaningful things a website does with their data. To accomplish this Disconnect is hosting a project to crowd-source -- think Wikipedia -- turning […]
The Legacy of Aaron Swartz
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAaron Swartz's tragic death has been covered by the news media in a wide array of contexts, from his contribution to internet technology to the criminal prosecution that ultimately led to his decision to take his own life. What has not been discussed in depth is what Aaron was really trying to do, and why […]
CodeX FutureLaw Conference 2013
On April 26th, CodeX - the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics will host the first-ever CodeX FutureLaw Conference - a conference focusing on how technology is changing the landscape of the legal profession and the law more broadly. The conference will bring together leading thinkers, entrepreneurs, investors and technologists that are experimenting and actively […]
Meet CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome meet CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics! CodeX staff, fellows and alumni, including the founders of LawGives, Ravel Law, and d.School Legal Fellow Margaret Hagan will talk about their work. The event will give you an opportunity to learn about some of the new technologies that are changing the legal system. These […]
Toward Integrating Computational Models and Legal Texts
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCodeX Speaker Series with Kevin D. Ashley, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Learning Research and Development Center, and Intelligent Systems Program This talk will survey some techniques and prospects for enabling computational models of legal reasoning to work directly and automatically with legal texts to perform legal problem-solving tasks. For example, users of commercial […]
We Have the Future Info Session
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSponsored by Codex and The E-Club A unique entrepreneurial study and research experience combining the finest and most advanced Law and Economics theories with real business cases. You will be guided through this process by the outstanding professors of the Scientific Committee, that will help you and your team analyze the most relevant aspects of […]
Innovating within the Professional Monopoly: The Law of Unauthorized Practice Meets The Technology Boom
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAs we are well aware, the startup boom has hit the legal industry in a major way with many new companies entering the market for delivery of basic legal services to everyday people and small businesses. Companies like Legalzoom, Responsive Law, LegalForce, and Rocket Lawyer each present a slightly different model of the new, technology-driven […]
CodeX Speaker Series: To Catch a Thief With and Without Numbers
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesEvidential reasoning is a notoriously complex task, and mistakes can have severe consequences. For instance, in the Netherlands, nurse Lucia de Berk was convicted to life imprisonment for murdering several patients. She served 6.5 years in prison, before a revision court decided that she was not guilty, now that the investigated deaths were no longer […]
Trial With and Without Mathematics: Legal, Philosophical, and Computational Perspectives
DNA evidence and forensic science have once again brought mathematics into the courtroom. Numbers and statistics have helped distinguish the innocent from the guilty, but have also led to miscarriages of justice, for example, Dreyfus, Collins, Lucia de Berk. Is mathematics relevant in law at all? Do lawyers need mathematical training in statistics and logic? […]
CodeX Speaker Series: Professor Harry Surden Discusses Machine-Learning Within Law
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford Law School, Room 190 Professor Surden will discuss some current and future applications of machine-learning within law. Legal practice is thought to require advanced cognitive abilities, but such higher-order cognition remains outside the capability of current machine-learning technology. Is it possible then to automate certain legal tasks despite this technological limitation? In some contexts, […]
EVOLVE LAW: A CodeX Demo Event
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States5:00pm-6:00pm Reception 6:00pm-8:00pm Panel Please join us for a discussion with founders of some of the hottest legal tech companies who will be presenting the nuts and bolts of starting a legal tech business, funding experiences, marketing and sales strategies, and brief demos of their products. LexMachina's Owen Byrd will speak about their journey as […]
Learn How Technology is Disrupting the Legal System and How You Can be Part of Shaping the Future of Law
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCodeX staff, fellows and alumni will talk about their work. The event will give you an opportunity to learn about some of the new technologies that are changing the legal system. These technologies change the way law is practiced offering you opportunities to approach your career in new and unconventional ways. We will then have […]
CodeX Speaker Series: Professor John McGinnis Discusses Computational Jurisprudence
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesTHE GREAT DISRUPTION: HOW MACHINE INTELLIGENCE WILL TRANSFORM THE ROLE OF LAWYERS IN THE DELIVERY OF LEGAL SERVICES Professor John O. McGinnis will discuss two issues. First, he will describe how machines are coming to disrupt the legal profession. Superstars and specialists in fast changing areas of the law will prosper — and litigators and […]
CodeX at LegalTechNYC Conference
New York Hilton Midtown 1335 Avenue of the Americas Concourse Level, Room G, New York, NY, United StatesAmerican Lawyer Media (ALM), the organizers of the LegalTech trade show, invited CodeX to develop two panels for the LegalTechNYC conference (Feb. 3-5, 2015). In addition, ALM generously offered prime exhibitor space to a group of 10 innovative early stage legal tech companies from the circle of CodeX friends. These companies will have the opportunity to exhibit their products during […]
CodeX Speaker Series: Jerry Kaplan on the Law of Artificial Intelligence
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States"OFFICER, ARREST THAT ROBOT!" Humans have rights, animals have rights, corporations have rights ... but what about artificially intelligent systems? Sound ridiculous? Jerry Kaplan, Visiting Lecturer in Computer Science and Codex Fellow, will argue that it makes perfect sense to accord sufficiently capable AI systems rights and responsibilities, in order to control their use and […]
The Law Firm of the Future
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Reception The law as a profession is quickly giving way to law as a business as new technologies have placed unprecedented pressures on lawyers and law firms to adopt not only modern technologies but also modern best business practices to reduce inefficiency, improve quality and meet the expectation […]
CodeX Speaker Series: Mark Flood and Oliver Goodenough Discuss Computational Representation of Financial Agreements
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesMark Flood (Office of Financial Research (OFR), U.S. Treasury) and Oliver Goodenough (Vermont Law School and a visitor at both CodeX and OFR) will present their paper on the “Contract as Automaton: The Computational Representation of Financial Agreements.” Their research shows that the fundamental legal structure of a well written financial contract follows a state-transition […]
CodeX FutureLaw Conference 2015
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesOn April 30, 2015, CodeX - the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics will host FutureLaw 2015, CodeX’s third annual conference focusing on how technology is changing the landscape of the legal profession, the law itself, and how these changes impact us all. CodeX FutureLaw 2015 will bring together the academics, entrepreneurs, lawyers, investors, policy makers, […]
ICAIL 2015
University of San Diego, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice 5998 Alcalá Park - San Diego, San Diego, CA, United StatesNote: Sunday, May 31 is the last day to register at a lower rate! ICAIL 2015 – The Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law June 8-12, 2015 San Diego, California Regular registration rates are in effect through Sunday, May 31. Late registration, with higher rates, begins Monday, June 1. Please register by midnight […]
CodeX Legal Disruption Lightning Round @Legaltech West Coast 2015
Hyatt Regency San Francisco 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA, United StatesOn July 14, CodeX will have a featured track at Legaltech West Coast 2015 (San Francisco, #LTWC15 / @legaltechshow), organized by American Lawyer Media (ALM). The CodeX Legal Disruption Lightning Round will feature legal tech innovators presenting their companies or non-profits in front of the audience and a group of distinguished expert judges, including John Bautista, Monica Bay, Jerry Kaplan, Rebecca Lynn, and Jeroen Plink. […]
Meet CodeX: Find out how to join the legal innovation boom
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRegister Now CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics is hosting its annual Law School kick-off meeting and invites you to enjoy lunch while hearing from the center’s leadership, […]
Autonomous Vehicles, Predictability, and Law
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRegister Now Fully autonomous or “self-driving” automobiles are vehicles “which can drive themselves without human supervision or input.” They are likely to become an increasing presence in our physical environment […]