‘Replacement or Collaboration? Imagining the Future(s) of Law, Lawyers & Justice’
International Conference
Tuesday 13 June 2023
See below for links to recordings of presentations, where available
Funded by the School of Law, University of Galway
9.15 Registration
9.30 Keynote speaker: Professor Cat Moon, Vanderbilt University Law School
10.00 Futures of Law Teaching
Chair: Dr Rónán Kennedy, University of Galway
- 10.00 ‘Future Proofing Legal Education – Preparing Lawyers for Tomorrow’s Challenges‘ (Paul Ippolito, College of Law Sydney)
- 10.15 ‘Meeting the Challenges of Technology: The Modern Law School’ (Prof Andy Unger, London South Bank University)
- 10.30 ‘Incorporating Generative AI in Legal Education – Pedagogical and Policy Lessons from An Early Case Study at LITE Lab@HKU’ (Prof Brian W Tang, University of Hong Kong)
- 10.45 ‘Pressing A in Legal Education: Exploring the Use of Videogames as Supplementary Resource in Teaching Intellectual Property Law’ (Dr. Liam Sunner, Queen’s University Belfast)
11.00 Discussion
11.15 Break
11.30 Futures of Law and Data
Chair: Dr Abigail Rekas, University of Galway
- 11.30 ‘Investigating Semantic Textual Similarity in Legal Documents: A Sentence Transformer-Based Approach’ (Dr Rohit Verma, National College of Ireland and Dr Tanveer Ahmed, Bennett University)
- 11.45 ‘Training law students to use data for social change: key takeaways from a yearlong project with first year law students’ (Prof Quisquella Addison, Northeastern University)
- 12.00 ‘Establishing a Sector Specific Data Protection Impact Assessment for Irish Legal Analytics Services’ (Jennifer Waters, University College Dublin)
12.15 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
13.15 Futures of Legal Practice
Chair: Alison Hough BL, Technological University of the Shannon
- 13.15 ‘AI for the Irish solicitors’ profession: use, awareness and attitudes’ (Dr Brian Barry, Technological University Dublin)
- 13.30 ‘Transforming the Profession and Transforming the Law School: A research agenda from NI’ (Prof John Morison and Dr Ciarán O’Kelly, Queen’s University Belfast) [online]
- 13.45 ‘Asking the Question: Legal Expertise and Generative AI’ (Audrey Fried, Osgoode Hall Law School) [online]
- 14.00 ‘End of the Legal Ice Age’ (Marc Lauritsen, Capstone Practice Systems and Suffolk University Law School) [online]
14.15 Discussion
14.30 Break
14.45 Futures of Justice
Chair: Prof Andy Unger, London South Bank University
- 14.45 ‘Responsible AI in the Delivery of Legal Services’ (Larry Bridgesmith, Vanderbilt University) [online]
- 15.00 ‘The public inaccessibility of digitalized legal sources as a reason of unequal access to law and justice in the Czech Republic’ (Tereza Novotná, Masaryk University)
- 15.15 `The Ethics and Legality of Integrating Large Language Models into Legal Education‘ (Dr Rónán Kennedy, University of Galway)
15.30 Discussion
15.45 Futures of Law Plenary Discussion
16.15 Close
