Tony Lai

The Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy is the first law journal to publish on the greater blockchain technology space. It features Articles (peer-reviewed), Essays, and Comments. In conjunction with its print run, JBLP is published here at pubpub.org.

Edited by Stanford University-affiliated academics and practitioners based out of the Stanford CodeX Blockchain Group and part of the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, JBLP fills a critical need in the field for a neutral… Show more

The Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy is the first law journal to publish on the greater blockchain technology space. It features Articles (peer-reviewed), Essays, and Comments. In conjunction with its print run, JBLP is published here at pubpub.org.

Edited by Stanford University-affiliated academics and practitioners based out of the Stanford CodeX Blockchain Group and part of the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, JBLP fills a critical need in the field for a neutral, disinterested, and reputable platform to publish high-quality content and to advance discourse. Our scope spans (but is not limited to) the legal aspects of blockchains and cryptocurrencies, regulatory and policy ramifications, governance, and the future of decentralization.

https://stanford-jblp.pubpub.org/
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IAALS is a national, independent research center dedicated to facilitating continuous improvement and advancing excellence in the American legal system. Our mission is to forge innovative and practical solutions to problems in our legal system in collaboration with the best minds in the country.

I volunteer with IAALS because of their focus on empirical data driven research and their emphasis on delivering recommendations and solutions that both focus on the experience and needs of legal… Show more

IAALS is a national, independent research center dedicated to facilitating continuous improvement and advancing excellence in the American legal system. Our mission is to forge innovative and practical solutions to problems in our legal system in collaboration with the best minds in the country.

I volunteer with IAALS because of their focus on empirical data driven research and their emphasis on delivering recommendations and solutions that both focus on the experience and needs of legal system users, and also get picked up and implemented by legal system leaders, operators, and architects. Show less

I’m a board member for District Commons, a non-profit with a mission to amplify the emancipatory power of communities to create collective possibilities, supporting an ecosystem of projects nurtured around the Embassy Network, a network of place-based communities experimenting with new forms of governance and solidarity. Learn more at districtcommons.net and embassynetwork.com

The MIT Computational Law Report (law.mit.edu) is an agile, new media online publication that explores the ways that law and legal processes can be reimagined and engineered as computational systems. The Report features:

- Written content (such as peer-reviewed articles, essays, and posts);
- Rich media content (such as videos, podcasts, visualizations, etc); and
- Reproducible software and data projects (such as computational law apps, automated processes, data science projects… Show more

The MIT Computational Law Report (law.mit.edu) is an agile, new media online publication that explores the ways that law and legal processes can be reimagined and engineered as computational systems. The Report features:

- Written content (such as peer-reviewed articles, essays, and posts);
- Rich media content (such as videos, podcasts, visualizations, etc); and
- Reproducible software and data projects (such as computational law apps, automated processes, data science projects, games, etc)

The Report is published and edited by law.mit.edu-affiliated academics, researchers, and practitioners. The Report fills a critical need for reputable, responsive, and neutral analysis of emerging computational law applications and thought leadership. Show less

Since the onset of COVID, the MIT Computational Law Report has convened a weekly series of working meetings to collect, evaluate, and curate privacy principles for contact tracing applications and other services that leverage individual location and proximity data to combat COVID-19. These working meetings have included a diverse group of stakeholders with backgrounds in law, technology, epidemiology, from the public sector, the private sector, government, and academia. A core team of… Show more

Since the onset of COVID, the MIT Computational Law Report has convened a weekly series of working meetings to collect, evaluate, and curate privacy principles for contact tracing applications and other services that leverage individual location and proximity data to combat COVID-19. These working meetings have included a diverse group of stakeholders with backgrounds in law, technology, epidemiology, from the public sector, the private sector, government, and academia. A core team of volunteers has been establishing and iterating on a set of principles in providing essential guidance about what the privacy principles for these sorts of applications ought to be. Show less

We’re a global movement of lawyers, policymakers, technologists, and academics who explore and develop creative solutions to some of the most pressing issues at the intersection of law and technology. Through regular local meetups, hackathons, and workshops, Legal Hackers spot issues and opportunities where technology can improve and inform the practice of law and where law, legal practice, and policy can adapt to rapidly changing technology. There are currently over 60 Legal Hackers chapters… Show more

We’re a global movement of lawyers, policymakers, technologists, and academics who explore and develop creative solutions to some of the most pressing issues at the intersection of law and technology. Through regular local meetups, hackathons, and workshops, Legal Hackers spot issues and opportunities where technology can improve and inform the practice of law and where law, legal practice, and policy can adapt to rapidly changing technology. There are currently over 60 Legal Hackers chapters around the world, with over 8,000 Legal Hackers, across 5 continents.

The San Francisco chapter holds regular meetups, panel events, and hackathons for the local Bay Area community. In Q3 2017 we commenced a series on blockchain technologies, token launches, and governance. A forthcoming Q4 2017 series will focus on open data and open knowledge ecosystems.

More information can be found at sflegalhackers.com -- please get in touch if you have an idea for an event! Show less

As a Member of the ABA's Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, I worked with a team of attorneys, technologists and program leaders seeking to nurture a commons of sustainable, replicable models of delivery of legal services for moderate income people - those above the legal aid poverty line but who are priced out of the prevailing hourly-rate market for legal services.

The ABA is one of the world’s largest voluntary professional organizations, with over 400,000 members… Show more

As a Member of the ABA's Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, I worked with a team of attorneys, technologists and program leaders seeking to nurture a commons of sustainable, replicable models of delivery of legal services for moderate income people - those above the legal aid poverty line but who are priced out of the prevailing hourly-rate market for legal services.

The ABA is one of the world’s largest voluntary professional organizations, with over 400,000 members and more than 3,500 entities. It is committed to doing what only a national association of attorneys can do: serving our members, improving the legal profession, eliminating bias and enhancing diversity, and advancing the rule of law throughout the United States and around the world. Show less

The vision of the Distributed Ledger Foundation (DLF) is to be the trusted, global leader for the promotion of transparency around the control of decentralized networks. See https://www.distributedledgerfoundation.org/ for more info.

The DLF's mission is to:
1) Uphold the highest standards of integrity, trust, and governance of this transformative technology through education, research, policy advocacy, and legal expertise.
2) Provide thought-leadership, education, and support in… Show more

The vision of the Distributed Ledger Foundation (DLF) is to be the trusted, global leader for the promotion of transparency around the control of decentralized networks. See https://www.distributedledgerfoundation.org/ for more info.

The DLF's mission is to:
1) Uphold the highest standards of integrity, trust, and governance of this transformative technology through education, research, policy advocacy, and legal expertise.
2) Provide thought-leadership, education, and support in the development of best practices and standards for ensuring the speed, security, and fairness of applications of DLT, as well as establishing the trust frameworks that will be critical to their success.
3) Support legislation that strengthens accountability and governance of applications of DLT, and provide proactive, public assessment of any pending legislation which may impact DLT.
4) Advocate for the implementation of member initiatives.

As a non-profit partner of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX), the Distributed Ledger Foundation will host and promote the OIX Blockchain, Identity, Trust and Governance (BITGov) Workshop series: One day educational workshops for lawyers, policy makers and technologists involved in deploying systems at scale utilizing blockchains and distributed ledger technology. For more information, see:
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Served on the Board of Advisors for Shareable.net, an award-winning non-profit Tides Center project committed to promoting sharing, the commons, and contribution to the common good as key to the definition of the good life.

Supports Ashoka’s development of a high-caliber talent pipeline targeted to fuel its A-Year program and to source Ashoka Fellow nominees. Networks and recruits a collection of social entrepreneurs to enhance combined capital for changemakers worldwide.