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On April 6th, FutureLaw Week, "the ever-expanding, premier industry-and-academia event" that examines the intersection of law and technology, kicked off at Stanford Law School. Organized by Stanford's Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX), the event had panels on topics such as ...“Hybrid Legal Intelligence: Bridging the Neuro-Symbolic Divide” and “Generative AI and Intellectual Property." 200 people attended the all-day conference in Paul Brest Hall on April 11th.
“FutureLaw always feels like a homecoming for people in the law and tech community,” said Megan Ma, Associate Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology, CodeX Fellow, and co-organizer of and presenter at FutureLaw. “There is this tremendous excitement every year that just gets stronger,” said Roland Vogl, the conference's organizer and co-founder and executive director of CodeX.
https://stanford.io/4a4Avo4
SLS's Rule of Law Impact Lab, Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados AC, & the Inter-American Dialogue conclude Mexico's Constitutional Reform proposals directed at the federal judiciary constitute a threat to judicial independence, violate international legal standards, & undermine ...democracy in Mexico.
Read more: https://stanford.io/4a8dEbf
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El Laboratorio de Impacto sobre el Estado de Derecho de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Stanford, Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados AC, y el Programa de Estado de Derecho del Diálogo Interamericano concluyen que las propuestas de Reforma Constitucional de México dirigidas al poder judicial federal constituyen una amenaza a la independencia judicial, violan los estándares legales internacionales, y socavan la democracia en México.
Leer más: https://stanford.io/4a2G7zr
Last week was the annual Staff vs. Students Softball Game out on Wilbur Field! This year the students won after a two year winning streak for the staff team ⚾️🧢
"Challenging criminal convictions or sentences as racially discriminatory is very difficult, due in part to the seemingly impossible standard set in 1987 by the U.S. Supreme Court in McCleskey v. Kemp. That decision established that a defendant must 'prove that the decisionmakers in his ...case acted with discriminatory purpose' and cannot rely solely on statistical studies showing discrimination broadly," said Hoang Pham, Associate Director and Manager of Education Design at the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, along with Amira Dehmani, BA, MA ’24, an intern at the Stanford Center for Racial Justice.
In a recent SLS blog post, Pham and Dehmani explained the California Racial Justice Act of 2020. Read more about the act and its implications at the link below.
https://stanford.io/44kMJbb