Outline_MIT-2018-10-31.md

Outline for Legal Conference – MIT Connection Science – October 31, 2018

(All is negotiable, provisional, fluid. IACCM session likely should come towards mid-afternoon.)

1. Placing “legal” in context

   11. Error handling on transactions

       111. Happy path, unhappy path

       112. What does business want from legal? (IACCM)

   12. Governance, democracy and rule of law

       121. What should legal prevent business from getting?

2. Text Collaboration for Lawyers:

   21. Git, plain text, modularity

   22. Collaboration on a transaction

       221. A transaction “object”

       222. Confidentiality and data security

   23. Collaboration on models – open sourcing the law

   24. Better tools

3. Knowledge Management for Lawyers

   31. AI/NLP/ML structuring of unstructured information (very quickly, already the most developed field)

   32. AI/NLP/ML guidance for the participant.

       321. Social Physics

4. Unpacking Blockchains – what they solve, what they aggravate, the solution they point to.

   41. Why “blockchain”? Why not. What else?

5. Personal Data Stores – why, where, when

   51. Facebook, GDPR, data breaches

6. Law as Public Good

   61. Global codification

   62. Governance of codification – dangers, opportunities

7. Impact on Governance – governments, “the firm”, banking

   71. Sustainability

   72. “Intentional” economies

8. The Future of the Profession

9. Next Steps