[Air-L] SSN Seminar: 'The Death of the Legal Profession and the Future of Law' with Prof Dan Hunter

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Please join us for this online seminar hosted by the Deakin Science and
Society Network <https://scienceandsocietynetwork.deakin.edu.au/> (SSN).
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*Register here: *https://ssnseminar-danhunter.eventbrite.com.au

*Date/time:* Tuesday February 16, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern
Daylight Time, GMT+11)


*Title:*The Death of the Legal Profession and the Future of Law

*Abstract:*

This presentation identifies the five large-scale changes that have
happened or are happening to the legal profession:

1. How technology solutions have moved law from a wholly bespoke service to
one that resembles an off-the-shelf commodity;

2. How globalisation and outsourcing upend traditional expectations that
legal work is performed where the legal need is, and shifts production away
from high cost centres to low cost centres;

3. How managed legal service providers – who are low cost,
technology-enabled, and process-driven – threaten traditional commercial
practice;

4. How technology platforms will diminish the significance of the law firm;
and

5. How artificial intelligence and machine learning systems will take over
a significant portion of lawyers’ work by the end of the 2020s.

The article discusses how these changes have transformed or are
transforming the practice of law, and explains how institutions within the
law will need to respond if they are to remain relevant (or even to
survive). More broadly, it examines the social implications of a legal
environment where a large percentage of the practice of law is performed by
institutions that sit outside the legal profession.

*About the speaker:*

*Dan Hunter* is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, Queensland
University of Technology, and was previously the Founding Dean of Swinburne
Law School. He is an international expert in intellectual property and AI &
law, and the author of books on gamification, intellectual property, and
intelligent legal systems. His current research is focused on the use of
innovation and technology within law, including the use of AI in sentencing
and criminal justice, the legal implications of autonomous systems, and the
future of legal practice. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law,
and a chief investigator in the $71M ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated
Decision-Making and Society.

*About the respondent:*

*Rajesh Vasa *heads translational research at the Applied Artificial
Intelligence Institute, Deakin University. He has over two decades of
experience spanning both industry and academia with deep skills in
artificial intelligence and complex software systems design. His career
spans engineering, operations and executive leadership in organisations
across the world. Rajesh is passionate about solving high impact societal
problems. Recent work spans building intelligent homes for elderly,
reducing traffic congestion, supporting decision making in safety-critical
contexts, using gamification to improve dementia care, personalised
education, and detecting spam and malware. Prof Vasa’s research focus is in
constructing robust AI systems.

*Watch the seminar:*

Seminar will be available to stream on YouTube live. Access using the live
link: https://youtu.be/Y6QRoJwbq5A

<https://youtu.be/Y6QRoJwbq5A> <https://youtu.be/WIuOlgT5hIs>Date/time:
Tuesday February 16, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Daylight Time,
GMT+11)

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The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on the SSN YouTube
channel after the Livestream.

If you have any questions, please send to ssn-info at deakin.edu.au.