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Tony Lai

Stanford Computational Law and Ecological Stewardship

San Francisco, California, United States · 1 connection

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About

Tony tunes into collective potential at a human and a systems level. He is a lawyer, researcher, and technology entrepreneur, advising and working with companies, government agencies, law firms, and nonprofits, bridging from new approaches and tools at the intersection of law and technology to practical use cases in community sovereignty, data governance, compliance, and the management of common risks and resources at a global and local scale. He is an Entrepreneurial Fellow and Founder of the Blockchain Group at CodeX, Stanford's Center for Legal Informatics. Tony co-founded the company, Legal.io, to deploy technology to scale legal access worldwide, and serves on the boards of various companies and non-profit organizations working on improving data governance and legal inter-operability. He consults on collaboration design with DSIL Global and learnt design thinking at Stanford’s d.school. He helped design and research the first legal technology course at Stanford Law School, and was on the founding team of StartX, the Stanford-affiliated startup accelerator. He advises government agencies, startups, enterprises, and legal service organizations at the intersection of computationa

Experience

Member of the Board of DirectorsStartX
May 2011
2020 Foresight Fellow in Legal Engineering for the BiosphereForesight Institute Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Apr 2020 to Jan 2021
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Technology, Robotics, AI, and the LawNational University of Singapore Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Dec 2019 to Dec 2020
Research Fellow Teaching AssistantStanford Law School Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Sep 2012 to Dec 2012
Teaching Fellow - Ideas for a Better InternetStanford University
Sep 2011 to Jan 2012

Education

Stanford University
LL.M Law Science and Technology
2010 to 2011
BPP Law School
GDL/LPC Law
2003 to 2005
University of Oxford
BA MA (Oxon) Modern History
2000 to 2003
Oakham School
High School
1991 to 1999