Tony Lai
Stanford Computational Law and Ecological Stewardship
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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
Feb 2023
Sep 2020
Oct 2010
Aug 2019 to Dec 2025
Jan 2021 to Feb 2021
Apr 2020 to Jan 2021
Dec 2019 to Dec 2020
Sep 2012 to Dec 2012
Mar 2008 to Jun 2010
Mar 2006 to Feb 2008
Education
LL.M Law Science and Technology
2010 to 2011
GDL/LPC Law
2003 to 2005
BA MA (Oxon) Modern History
2000 to 2003
High School
1991 to 1999