IP: Imagining the Law of the Future

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/07/technology/07CYBERLAW.html

> Imagining the Law of the Future
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> By CARL S. KAPLAN
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> What will the world of law be like in 1,000 years?
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> That's right. Not five or 10 or 100 years. But 1,000 years from now?
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> At last month's American Bar Association convention in Chicago, a panel of 
> lawyers, technology experts and one cyberlaw journalist were asked to 
> tackle that intriguing question.
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> Moderated by Judge Wendell L. Griffen of the Arkansas Court of Appeals, 
> and sponsored by the ABA's section of science and technology law, members 
> of the group -- including Raymond L. Ocampo Jr., former general counsel of 
> Oracle Corporation; Morgan Chu, co-managing partner of Irell & Manella, a 
> Los Angeles-based law firm; Christine Grant, former commissioner of New 
> Jersey's Department of Health and Senior Services; and Roberta Katz, a 
> lawyer, anthropologist and currently chief executive of Flywheel 
> Communications, a legal computer network -- spoke of anticipated 
> breakthroughs in information technology, biogenetic engineering, 
> nanotechnology and neuroscience. They largely warned that lawyers in the 
> third millennium must meet their obligations to make sure that amid the 
> scientific advances the public interest is served.