Twenty years ago, a group of Stanford scholars, practitioners, and technologists saw the future of the legal system. Law and technology were no longer separate worlds, they observed, but increasingly interdependent forces. A multidisciplinary team spanning campus came together to lay one of the cornerstones of today’s legal-tech ecosystem with the launch of The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, CodeX, led by Stanford Law School’s Roland Vogl, JSM ’00, executive director, and Professor Michael Genesereth from the Computer Science Department, research director.

CodeX marked two decades of pioneering work with a robust schedule of events in April. The centerpiece of the celebratory week was the annual, all-day FutureLaw conference on April 10, a standing-room-only event that, for the past 12 years, has brought together global leaders in legal technology, artificial intelligence, and computational law. This year, FutureLaw reflected on CodeX’s 20 years of research and real-world applications—and looked ahead at how to best tackle emerging challenges in legal innovation. SL