IP: Imagining the Law of the Future

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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

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>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.