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April 2025

The CodeX Future Law Conference 2025 / Stanford Law School
In March, our doctoral fellow Oskar von Cossel travelled to Palo Alto, California, for the CodeX Future Law Conference 2025, held at Stanford Law School. We are grateful to Oskar for sharing his impressions with us: "Participants and speakers fell into three categories, and it was exciting to watch them trade blows. On the one side, there were proponents of purely neural approaches, e.g. ChatGPT. This group emphasized the flexibility and scalability of their methods. Opposing them were representatives of more traditional symbolic approaches to law and AI. This group emphasized the logical value of working with deductive structures like decision trees. A third group, of which I consider myself a part, tried to mediate by making a case in favor of hybrid “neuro-symbolic” approaches to law and AI. I will be curious to see where these approaches will take us in the next few years. Beyond the theoretical discussions, it was interesting to witness the field’s close entanglement with technology and business. The American entrepreneurial spirit was at full display in the heart of Silicon Valley, as discussions frequently revolved around venture capital funding, newly founded corporations, and the latest start-up in the field. I look forward to going back next year.”

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