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Global Legal Hackathon February 23-25, 2018

By Deborah Dobson posted 02-21-2018 13:08

  

The Global Legal Hackathon is bringing the legal industry together with technology and innovation, world-wide spanning 6 continents with one purpose: rapid development of solutions for improving the legal industry world-wide. The organizers have issued a set of “Hadfield Challenges” urging participants to address one of 10 “problems worth serving” in the realms of access to justice, administration of justice, and consumer rights.

The challenges are named for University of Southern California Professor Gillian Hadfield who is one of the leading proponents of reform and redesign of legal systems.

Teams with particularly impressive solutions to the Hadfield Challenges will be invited to the global awards ceremony in New York on April 21.

Among those challenges are several which could potentially involve leveraging blockchain technology.  They include:


  • Reliable ID for All: With hundreds of millions of migrants around the world lacking reliable ID, they can’t prove their education, reliably pay bills, have work experience and a good performance record. Blockchain technology could potentially solve that problem.
  • Blockchain Micro-Contracting for the World: A blockchain-based global contracting platform could allow small traders in poor and developing countries to reliably participate in global supply chains.

Teams participating in the hackathon can develop solutions directed either to a private benefit that would address the business and practice of law or a public benefit relating to good government, legal systems, and access to justice.

You can follow the Global Legal Hackathon on Twitter using the hashtag #GlobalLegalHack or #GLH2018. There will also be a live feed. Visit https://globallegalhackathon.com/ to learn more about this event.

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