Since Legal Hackers organizers were not able to safely gather together for our annual summit this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we asked our chapter organizers to share their reflections on the Legal Hackers community using the hashtag #LegalHack2020. Below are some of the submissions we received: Patrícia Mirella Costa Araújo from Imperatriz Legal Hackers: Narae Lee from Seoul Legal Hackers: … Read More
Connessi Vinciamo: A Global Message from Legal Hackers
As the world continues to fight the current health crisis caused by COVID-19 by requiring social distancing and restricting travel, Legal Hackers wants to remind our community that today, more than ever, we can use technology to stay connected and help each other. We are all in this together, and so Legal Hackers chapters from all over the world have worked … Read More
Kyiv Legal Hackers Host First Legal Hackathon!
On May 27-28, 2017, Kyiv Legal Hackers hosted its first legal hackathon! The event was spread across two locations in the Ukraine, with over 150 people attending the pitch night for the 15 projects produced during the weekend. First prize went to Playbook, an app to help seed investors make sure their legal documents are correct from the start. The … Read More
Music City Legal Hackers Host Inaugural Legal Hackathon
The Music City Legal Hackers, in conjunction with Code for Nashville, hosted their first legal hackathon on April 7-8, 2017 at Vanderbilt Law School! The hackathon challenged participants to solve problems submitted by Tennessee pro bono and “low bono” legal nonprofits. For those who were interested in legal hacking and access to justice, but did not want to join the hackathon, Massachusetts … Read More
New York Legal Hackers Ask What A Trump Presidency Will Mean for Technology Innovation
On December 14, 2016, the New York Legal Hackers chapter hosted a non-partisan panel discussion on what the state of technology policy might be over the next four years under President-Elect Trump. Watch the video below: Panelists Oz Sultan – Former CounterTerrorism Policy and Smart Cities Advisor, Trump Campaign Kristian Stout – Associate Director for Innovation Policy, International Center for … Read More
New York Legal Hackers Explore Cryptocurrency Regulation
In a lively panel discussion on March 2nd, the New York Legal Hackers explored the shifting perceptions of Bitcoin and the various regulatory regimes impacting cryptocurrencies. Over the past several years, virtual currencies such as Bitcoin have made headlines — first as an untraceable currency used largely by criminals, then as an easily lost asset as exchanges such as Mt. Gox collapsed after … Read More
NY Legal Hackers Declare “Safe Harbor R.I.P.: A Data Protection Postmortem”
On October 27th, New York Legal Hackers discussed the Court of Justice of the European Union’s invalidation of the much relied upon “safe harbor” permitting transfers of EU personal data to many United States companies earlier in the month. Fueled in large part by Edward Snowden’s disclosures on NSA surveillance, the decision means that EU law no longer recognizes one of … Read More
NY Video: Growing Eco-Tech in an Urban Environment
Under the onus of climate change, the vulnerabilities revealed by Hurricane Sandy, and the strain of a ballooning population on a city with century old infrastructure, it is starkly apparent that the quality of life in New York City will depend on progressive sustainability planning and management, none of which would be possible without adequate fostering of eco-tech solutions. Eco-tech … Read More
NY Video: Open Patent Licensing for Fun and Profit
A traditional patent license involves a payment for permission to use a new technology. But a series of new licensing models are bringing the power of open innovation into the patent arena. Can these new licenses help improve the patent system or win the patent wars? Will they incentivize R&D and attract top engineering talent? Will they stand up in … Read More
NY Video: 3D Printing in a 2D Legal Landscape
3D printing is most certainly the next major disruption in distribution since Napster. Yet unlike file-sharing, 3D printing takes the digital into the physical realm, giving it the potential to challenge nearly every imaginable industry on Earth. With daily stories of printed spaceship parts and custom bikinis beside headlines like “3D printed organs for all”, can the legal community hope … Read More