Gillian Hadfield is the inaugural Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society, professor of law, and strategic management professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She is also the director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. Her research is focused on innovative design for legal and dispute resolution systems in advanced and developing market economies; governance for artificial intelligence (AI); the markets for law, lawyers, and dispute resolution; and contract law and theory. She teaches Contracts; Problems in Legal Design; Legal Design Lab, and Responsible AI.
Hadfield is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Future Council for Agile Governance and co-curates their Transformation Map for Justice and Legal Infrastructure.
She served as a clerk to Chief Judge Patricia Wald on the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, and is the author of the book “Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy.”
Hadfield studied economics at Queens University, earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and her J.D. from Stanford Law School.
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Host Ralph Baxter welcomes Gillian Hadfield to talk about reinventing law and how it can benefit the people.
In this series of Legal Talk Network interviews, producer Laurence Colletti and CodeX Fellow Monica Bay interview Professor of Law Gillian Hadfield from University of Southern California, Professor Marshall Van Alstyne from...
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