Stanford Law School Tech Law & Policy

Stanford DEBP is the premier educational event for in-house counsel and practitioners working in tech law. Join us for DEBP ‘26 conferences.law.stanford.edu/bestpractices/

Tower & PACIFICA presented at CodeX: Tower's AI data room automates M&A due diligence for law firms. PACIFICA, Brazil's platform, resolves maternity benefit disputes in 38 days vs 2-4 years with 86% settlements. law.stanford.edu/2025/11/20/tow…

In-house legal teams are becoming command centers, using AI to draft litigation docs internally, adopting flat-fee pricing & demanding tech fluency from outside counsel. By CodeX Affiliate @OlgaVMack et al. law.stanford.edu/2025/11/18/fro…

EU AI Act implications for AI in criminal sentencing, classifying most systems as "high risk" with strict compliance requirements.@RobertMahari & Mazzini find legal uncertainty & policy tensions between broad horizontal regulation and sector-specific needs read.dukeupress.edu/fsr/article/37…

AI now lets researchers analyze 60K+ cases to rank law firms by actual courtroom wins, not prestige. Traditional rankings poorly predict results. CodeX Associate Director @RobertMahari offers data-driven alternative law.stanford.edu/2025/10/31/whe…

ACG Silicon Valley's Top 40 Leaders to Watch recognizes executives driving innovation and growth. CodeX Associate Director @RobertMahari featured in latest list. See the full list of 2025 leaders making an impact. acg.org/sv @ACGSV

Mirror bacteria could evade immune systems & devastate ecosystems. Scientists agree: they shouldn't be created. We have a rare chance to prevent catastrophic threat. LST's Cuellar in @CarnegieEndow : guard against mirror bacteria now carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/10/…

The 2025 LLMxLaw Hackathon brought together 150+ students from 14 countries and 43 universities to develop innovative legal tech solutions. kingselab.org/blog/dialogue-… Organized by King's E-Lab, Cambridge Judge Business School & CodeX

"Nothing about the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) requires platforms to change the speech that American users can see and share online" says @daphnehk in her post A Primer on Cross-Border Speech Regulation and the EU’s Digital Services Act cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2025/09/a…

Apply Now! Stanford IP Summer School, Aug. 18-22, in-person @StanfordLaw, or join us live online from anywhere. Topics: US & Tech #IPLaw, #copyright #trademarks #patents #tradesecrets Design protection, #IP license, tech transfer. Learn more: conferences.law.stanford.edu/ipsummerschool… #techlaw

Report calls for developing drugs that are most needed. #IP expert @StanfordLaw Prof. Lisa Larrimore Ouellette contributed to a report outlining strategies for reforming market-driven drug development. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/0… @PatentScholar

No Travel Needed: Learn US IP Law @StanfordLaw—Live Online. Join top global IP experts 8/18-22 for the premier IP law program. Topics: US & Tech #IPLaw, #copyright #trademarks #patents #tradesecrets Design protection, #IP license, tech transfer. Apply: conferences.law.stanford.edu/ipsummerschool…

Prof. @PatentScholar Lisa Larimore Ouellette was part of a committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine that authored this consensus study report. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/29157/…

Prof. Mark Lemley's (with coauthors) working paper, "Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age 2025: Volume I Chapters 1&2--Perspectives, Trade Secrets", is now available at SSRN. Read it here: #ip #IPlaw #techlaw papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

How is artificial intelligence is changing the legal field? On The Future of Everything podcast, @StanfordLaw Daniel Ho explains how AI can reduce costs and improve access to legal expertise, but rampant hallucinations remain an issue. Watch it here: engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-ai…

“AI is ripe for legal innovation—but high stakes demand caution,” says @StanfordLaw prof Dan Ho. In this @StanfordEng podcast, Ho explains how AI helped counties erase racist housing covenants in days & why sloppy use still leads to 80%+ hallucinations. 🎧 engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-ai…

SLS Professor Allen Weiner was a guest on @CBSNews in "Bay Area technology experts comment on possibility of cyberattacks following U.S. strikes on Iran." Watch it here: stanford.io/44pKMvS

Japan is ramping up efforts to attract medical tourists, focusing on language support and international cooperation. But how will it ensure ethical standards are maintained? Read more in a recent blog post by SLS's Center for Law and the Biosciences: stanford.io/4lMN79K

“The first thing that surprised me is how much variation there is," said SLS's Mark Lemley for @arstechnica in "Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book." Read more here: stanford.io/3IqpLZ7

SLS Professor Mark Lemley wrote an article, "Where are all the Prior Art Users in Patent Cases?", published by the @aipla Quarterly Journal. Read it here: stanford.io/4nOyrsq