About SubTech
The Northwestern Law and Technology Initiative will be hosting the 18th Edition of the International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice aka SubTech. This is a biennial conference exploring substantive legal technology since 1990.
Every two years since 1990, the SubTech conference brings together scholars, practitioners, and technologists interested in the intersection of technology and legal practice and education (both broadly defined) to venues of Salzburg, Chicago, Paris, Montreal, Stockholm, Cambridge (MA), Warwick (UK), Seattle, Oslo, Williamsburg, Vienna, New York, Zaragoza, Richmond, Nashville, Singapore, and Tallinn.
An 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.
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Agenda
Wednesday, July 17
| 18:00 |
Welcome reception; Registration ***Note: Meet at the restaurant, do not go to the Law school |
Osteria Via Stato |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
Osteria Via Stato |
Thursday, July 18
| 8:00 | Registration, coffee, networking, light breakfast items |
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, 375 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, Please enter at 375 E. Chicago Avenue, the only entrance open for this event. |
| 9:00 |
Opening Session – Welcome from the organizers
Attendee introductions (structured activity, 30 seconds each) Overview of schedule Reminder: Presenters/Facilitators are doing very short presentations to stimulate audience engagement and participation |
Session chair: Dan Linna Location: RB150 |
| 10:10 | Keynote – Bridget McCormack, CEO American Arbitration Association (formerly Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court) | |
| 10:40 | Q&A | |
| 11:00 | Break (15 minutes) | |
| 11:15 |
Second Session Themes –
Presenters/Facilitators – Thorne McCarty, John McGinnis, Frank Schilder and others |
Session chair: Kevin Ashley |
| 12:15 |
Third Session Themes –
Presenters/Facilitators – Dan Schwartz, Samuel Dahan, Jaromir Savelka, Hannes Westerman, Dan Linna, and others |
Session chair: April Dawson |
| 13:15 |
Lunch Generative AI for Law Mini Hackathon (Megan Ma, Samuel Dahan, and others) |
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| 14:45 | Small groups – pursuing research collaborations | |
| 15:45 |
Hands-On Workshop Large Language Models and Generative AI (Dan Hunter, Dan Linna, and others) |
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| 16:30 |
First-Day wrap-up
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Moderator: Dan Linna |
| 16:35 | Early evening activity – Chicago River Architecture Tour | Location: Wendella Boats, 400 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60611 |
| 19:00 | Reception and Dinner | Location: Beatrix, 671 N St Clair St, Chicago, IL 60611 |
Friday, July 19
| 8:00 |
Registration, coffee, networking, light breakfast items |
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| 9:00 |
Fourth Session Themes –
Presenters/Facilitators – Sarah Lawsky, Kevin Ashley, Megan Ma, Brian Tang, and others |
Session chair: Daniel Schwarcz
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| 10:00 |
Fifth Session Themes –
Presenters/Facilitators – Amy Schmitz, Roger Skalbeck, Andy Unger, Marc Lauritsen, Samuel Dahan, and others |
Session chair: Megan Ma
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| 11:00 | Break (15 minutes) | |
| 11:15 | Small group activities and discussions | |
| 12:00 |
Sixth Session Themes –
Presenters/Facilitators – April Dawson, Federico Ast, Conor Malloy, and others. |
Session chair: Amy Schmitz |
| 13:00 |
Lunch Demos: Generative AI for Law Mini Hackathon (Megan Ma, Samuel Dahan, and others) |
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| 14:00 |
Small groups – pursuing research collaborations [structured to capture ideas before session] |
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| 15:00 |
Seventh Session Themes –
Presenters/Facilitators – Andrew Torrance, Hannes Westerman, Damien Riehl and others |
Session chair: Marc Lauritsen |
| 16:00 | Small groups | |
| 16:30 |
Second-Day wrap-up
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Moderator: Dan Linna |
| 18:00 | Closing Dinner | Location: Beatrix, 671 N St Clair St, Chicago, IL 60611 |
Organizing Committee
Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh
Jorge Cerdio, Instituto Tecnológico de Méxcio
Alexis Chun, Singapore Management University
Samuel Dahan, Queen’s University
April Dawson, North Carolina Central University
Dan Hunter, King’s College London
Rónán Kennedy, University of Galway
Marc Lauritsen, Capstone Practice Systems
Dan Linna, Northwestern University
Megan Ma, Stanford
Cat Moon, Vanderbilt University
Nicole Morris, Emory University
Jaromir Savelka, Carnegie Mellon University
Dan Schwarcz, University of Minnesota
Quinten Steenhuis, Suffolk University
Brian Tang, The University of Hong Kong
Ann Thanaraj, Teesside University
Andy Unger, London South Bank University
Roland Vogl, Stanford
Hannes Westermann, Maastricht University