What do we want to look like when we’re 50?
The SCL Chair, Mark O’Conor, discusses SCL’s strategic objectives for the next five years and looks forward to the Society’s 50th anniversary…
Technology, Society & Justice
Blockchain and Smart Contracts: Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart
In this edited version of her recent paper, Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart: Blockchain-Based Contracts and the Social Workings of Law (which can be linked to below), Karen Levy examines blockchain-based contracts and the social workings of law…
Read More… from Blockchain and Smart Contracts: Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart
Understanding How AI and Automation Will Impact on Legal Workflow
Tim Pullan strips away some of the hype and takes a broad view of the use of AI in legal practice, highlighting its impact and potential…
Read More… from Understanding How AI and Automation Will Impact on Legal Workflow
Book Review: ‘Control Shift’
Neil Brown reviews David Meyer’s ‘Control Shift: How Technology Affects You and Your Rights’ and finds a lot in there – and a lot to like…
Editorial December 2017/January 2018
Laurence Eastham reflects on a year of high quality articles, is tempted to predict and looks forward to another exciting development in the SCL calendar…
Predictions 2018 – 22
Rebecca Keating suggests a series of developments which might be worth watching out for in 2018…
Predictions 2018 – 21
Chris Dale has made a habit of sending SCL a great set of somewhat acerbic predictions. Here is another glorious product of his warped crystal ball….
Predictions 2018 – 19
Joanna Goodman looks closely at what is happening, and about to happen, in the use of AI by law firms and considers some wider developments in tech affecting lawyers…
Prediction 2018 – 16
Just right for the Saturday before Christmas – a mainly light-hearted set of predictions from Matthew Lavy…
Predictions 2018 – 15
SCL Chair Mark O’Conor peers into 2018…