July 26-28, 2012 at New York Law School

Welcome

Program and Meals

Attendees

Travel & Accommodations 

Contact

 
The Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School is pleased to host the Twelfth International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice (SubTech 2012). We are excited to bring SubTech to New York City and very much look forward to seeing you in July.
 

Welcome

The Twelfth International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice (SubTech 2012) will be held Thursday through Saturday, July 26-28, at New York Law School in New York City. (http://www.nyls.edu/ ) 
 
SubTech has been held every other year since 1990. Its venues have included Salzburg, Chicago, Paris, Montreal, Stockholm, Cambridge (MA), Warwick (UK), Seattle, Oslo, Williamsburg, and Zaragoza. It is the premier international multidisciplinary gathering of specialists who work in the confluence of legal education and the technology of law. 
 
SubTech is dedicated to distinctively legal applications of information technology, as used or studied in legal education. By “substantive” we mean technologies of law teaching or practice that involve significant legal content. Artificial intelligence, computer-aided instruction, practice systems, online legal research, and Web-based applications are typical examples. By “legal education” we mean all contexts in which law is studied and taught, not just traditional law schools. 
 
Much of SubTech's success depends on keeping our participant roster appropriately sized, to preserve the informal atmosphere that differentiates it from other conferences.
 
We decided to run the conference a little differently this year.   Legal education and practice face some profound challenges, and we wanted to explore how SubTech can address those challenges.   The New York location offers us a perfect opportunity to do this, and we want to cap the event at 30 people.  We think this will make the discussions particularly fruitful.
 
We will initially convene on Thursday, July 26, at a dinner to get to know all the participants.  Then, on Friday we will all meet as a committee of the whole, to discuss the opportunities and implications of the rise of substantive advice giving systems and new online educational technologies (including legal expert systems, online automated document repositories, online educational innovations like MOOCs and electronic casebooks, automated learning tools, legal learning games, and so forth.)  We will ask how such systems can be developed and deployed to increase access to justice and enhance communications between government and citizens.  We will consider how in house legal departments can use such systems to re-engineer legal processes and provide efficient legal guidance to employees.  And we will discuss the implications of these developments for legal education.  We will also discuss the regulatory environment and available business models and career paths for recent law graduates.
 
On Saturday, we will take time to reflect on the lessons of the previous days, and participants will have the opportunity to make short presentations regarding their own projects and recent innovations in light of this. We will make also time for such reports in the context of the broader discussion and brainstorming sessions of the Friday session.
 
We hope that the conference can produce innovative ideas and concrete suggestions for changes to legal education, and we hope that the group will develop ideas for new, innovative projects involving various participants.
 
A list of those expected to attend can be found here.

 

SubTech 2012 Program

 Thursday, July 26
Dinner
Venue: City Hall Grill [map]
 
Friday July 27
Conference welcome and scene-setting
       Conveners: Dan Hunter, Marc Lauritsen, David Johnson
 
Automation of Legal Work
What technology/applications will most significantly increase efficiency of law practice?
What technology/applications will most significantly increase access to justice?
What legal processes are most in need of enhancement/reform by means of technology?
What technologies are causing more problems for the legal profession than they solve?
Convener: David Johnson
 
Break
 
The Nature of the Current and Future Legal Profession
What are the main barriers to adoption of these new technologies by the profession?
How can those barriers be lowered or eliminated?
Do we need to create new business models for the profession and/or substantive legal technology providers?
Do we need to rethink ethics rules and regulatory structures?
Convener: David Johnson
 
Lunch
 
Technology and the Law School Predicament
What should law schools be doing to prepare students for a newly technology enhanced profession?
Should different schools focus on differing approaches/opportunities? What choices make sense?
Can training in law practice technology and legal process engineering scale?
What are the most promising new career paths for law students?
Convener: Dan Hunter
 
Break
 
Re-invention
In light of the preceding discussion, what new inventions are needed?
Are there opportunities for cross-discipline collaboration?
Will the nature of law change as a result of new technologies?
Convener: Dan Hunter
 
Open discussion
 
Keynote Address: Professor Elizabeth Chambliss (NYLS)
 
Dinner and , 
Venue: Golden Unicorn Restaurant [map]
 
 
Saturday, July 28
Demonstrations and paper presentations
Convener: Marc Lauritsen
 
Call to Action
If we as a group were to issue a call to action, to law schools and legal technology innovators, what should we call for?
Conveners: Marc Lauritsen, David Johnson, Dan Hunter
 
Conference close

 

Meals

 

Thursday, July 26th @ 6:30 City Hall Grill, 131 Duane Street

http://cityhallnewyork.com/


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Friday, July 27 @ 7:00 pm.  Golden Unicorn, 18 East Broadway

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Attendees

 
If you are interested in receiving an invitation, contact David Johnson at: djohnson at nyls.edu.
 
 

 

 Travel Information for 

SubTech 2012

New York Law School

 

Hotels:

*Please note that our hotel blocks expire on June 26th and so if you wish to book one of the symposium hotels then you need to do so quickly.

Duane Street Hotel
130 Duane Street
New York, NY
Rate – $ 239 plus tax/night
Reservations can be made here.
Or by phone – 212.964.4600 
Group code: SUBT

Sheraton Tribeca
370 Canal Street
New York, NY
Rate – $ 229 plus taxes/night
Reservations can be made here.
Or by phone – 212.966.3400
Group Code:Sub Tech Group 

              Rate -   King rooms @ $166 plus taxes/night.
              Two double beds @ $189 plus taxes/night.
              Reservations can be made here.
              Or by phone - 718.256.3833


Getting to New York Law School:

New York Law School is located at 185 West Broadway (corner of West Broadway and Leonard Street) in the heart of TriBeCa in Lower Manhattan, within walking distance of both Wall Street and City Hall.

185 West Broadway 
New York, NY 10013-2921
General Information: 212.431.2100

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Contact:

New York Law School
General Information:
212.431.2368

 


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*If you have any dietary restrictions or requirements please email Naomi Allen at  naomi.allen@nyls.edu.

Contact

 
Dan Hunter
New York Law School
 
David Johnson                                      Marc Lauritsen
New York Law School                         Capstone Practice Systems
djohnson@nyls.edu                            marc@capstonepractice.com
 
 
 

 

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