All day
Held at Inn at Loretto in Santa Fe, New Mexico
“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” ― Winston S. Churchill
This meeting explored the idea that laws and regulations serve as the operating systems of societies — a lawOS. Like an operating system, laws evolve to manage a vast range of complex functions. Much as Linux, Windows, and macOS coordinate the execution of numerous applications, laws and regulations aspire to ensure the fair and reliable running of society. Laws respond to conflicts of interest, crime, and cheating by growing in complexity — encoding an ever-increasing number of rules and regulations to counter the abuse of power. On occasion the complexity of these rules becomes an abusive power in its own right.
This meeting also explored various questions on the theme of lawOS, such as: Do legal systems occasionally need complete redesigns, as operating systems do? Does the complexity of our current legal and regulatory systems exceed our human capacity for attention, and can AI help address this constraint? Where are the emerging rules and regulations in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and autonomous vehicles taking us as a society?
Funding was provided for this event through The Feldstein Program on the Complexity of the Law.
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Keynote Presentation: The Capitol Complex: A View from Congress
Keynote Presentation: The Capitol Complex: A View from Congress, Tom Udall, US Senator (D-NM)
Introduction to lawOS
Introduction to lawOS; David Krakauer, SFI President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems
Complexity of Financial Regulation
Complexity of Financial Regulation; Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University
On the Evolution of Operating Systems and Software Ecosystems
On the Evolution of Operating Systems and Software Ecosystems; Michael Godfrey, University of Waterloo
SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Flash Talks
SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Flash Talks Joshua Garland Justin Grana Elizabeth Hobson Chris Kempes
Panel Discussion: Designing Institutions under Radical Technological Change
Panel Discussion: Designing Institutions under Radical Technological Change Panel Chair: Yochai Benkler, Harvard University Panelists: Brad Allenby, Arizona State University Jerry Murdock, Insight Venture Partners/SFI Trustee
Regulation in Nature
Regulation in Nature; Jessica Flack, Santa Fe Institute
Special Presentation: So What
Special Presentation: So What; James Drake, Artist
The Evolution of Constitutions
The Evolution of Constitutions Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago, and Dan Rockmore, Dartmouth College/SFI External Faculty
LegalAIze: On Technology, Complexity, and the Rules of Change
LegalAIze: On Technology, Complexity, and the Rules of Change; Ugo Pagallo, University of Turin
Beyond Reason: Rules of the Sports Game Revisited
Beyond Reason: Rules of the Sports Game Revisited; Michael Jones, University of Massachusetts Lowell
SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Flash Talks
SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Flash Talks Christa Brelsford Yoav Kallus Artemy Kolchinsky Dan Larremore
Panel Discussion: The Design and Emergence of Legal Order
Panel Discussion: The Design and Emergence of Legal Order Panel Chair: Jenna Bednar, University of Michigan/SFI External Faculty Panelists: Gillian Hadfield, USC/University of Chicago Ajay Mehrotra, American Bar Foundation/Northwestern University
Computational Law
Computational Law; Michael Livermore, University of Virginia
Special Presentation: All’s Well that Ends Well
Special Presentation: All’s Well that Ends Well ; Jeffrey Ernstoff, Ernstoff Creative Services/Multi-Instrumentalist and Writer