UCL Legal Hackers

05/02/2020

Office & Dragons are organising a hackathon on 6th March at Barclays Eagle Labs. A hackathon is usually a weekend event where business and tech people come together to build a product or solution of some kind. If you're interested, do apply soon:

Following the resounding success of our first Hackathon in November 2019, Office & Dragons, Barclays Eagle Labs, Extropy.io, and Indorse are excited to announce our second Legal Tech Hackathon hosted at the Barclays LawTech Eagle Lab at Notting Hill Gate, London. The hackathon will take place on 06....

04/02/2020

We had a great discussion last Monday with 3 distinguished guests about the future of the industry. A huge thanks again to Tara Waters from Ashurst and Samuel Smolkin and Logan Oliver from Office & Dragons for sharing your insights!

LawTech practitioners from Ashurst and Office & Dragons spoke about their experiences in law and in the LawTech industry.

10/12/2019

Hi everyone, hopefully you are having a great final week of the first term.

Below are a few resources that might be of interest to you:

1) DataScience for lawyers, free online course
http://www.datascienceforlawyers.org/learning-resources/

2) Legal tech is booming: Are we heading for crash or shooting for the stars?https://suits.contractbook.com/legaltechweekly/legal-tech-is-booming-are-we-heading-for-crash-or-shooting-for-the-stars

3) Top 10 ‘intrapreneurs’: fresh faces power legal sector changes
https://www.ft.com/content/a6f12cbc-106e-11ea-a225-db2f231cfeae

Have a great break and we will see you again in January for more exciting events!

Data Science for Lawyers - University of Ottawa

28/11/2019

If you couldn't make it for our meeting earlier today, the slides from our past events are available at on our website: https://ucllh.org

22/11/2019

Interesting legal tech updates from this week:

1) Legal statement on cryptoassets and smart contracts
https://technation.io/news/uk-takes-significant-step-in-legal-certainty-for-smart-contracts-and-cryptocurrencies/

2) Clio Cloud Conference - series of podcasts
https://open.spotify.com/show/77JuFVVZWX11L6nS5I9zs8?si=c9Zu9QNLSPa1pOzfSVn_qw

Have a great weekend!

18/11/2019

Last Tuesday, Lord Sales gave the BAILII Sir Henry Brooke Annual Lecture, titled "Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and the Law".

Amongst other things, Lord Sales discussed the possibility of an "Algorithm Commission" which would scrutinise implementation and deployment of predictive algorithms.

One commentator described it as "one of the most sensible talks on AI I have ever heard... It was refreshing and grounding to hear such an authoritative and skilled legal voice give their take on all of this from a principled perspective."

22/03/2019

UCL Legal Hackers' inaugural panel event held on the 20th of March 2019.