Center for Leadership Development and Research

Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Location: Stanford Law School
Time: 5:30 - 6:30pm Reception - Student Lounge, then 6:30 - 7:45pm Panel - Room 190 REGISTER NOW

Once relegated to factories and fiction, robots are rapidly entering the mainstream. Advances in artificial intelligence translate into ever-broadening functionality and autonomy. Recent years have seen an explosion in the use of robotics in warfare, medicine, and exploration. Industry analysts and UN statistics predict equally significant growth in the market for personal or service robotics over the next few years. What unique legal challenges will the widespread availability of sophisticated robots pose? Three panelists with deep and varied expertise discuss the present, near future, and far future of robotics and the law.

Panelists:

* Kenneth Anderson, Professor of Law, American University; Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University
* Paul Saffo, Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University; Visiting Scholar, Stanford Media X; Columnist, ABCNews.com
* F. Daniel Siciliano, Faculty Director, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance; Senior Lecturer in Law and Associate Dean for Executive Education and Special Programs, Stanford Law School

Moderator: M. Ryan Calo, Residential Fellow, Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Co-Sponsored by the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and the Stanford Program in Law Science and Technology's Center for Computers and Law ( CodeX). For more information please contact tech@law.stanford.edu.

Voter Funded Media: Governance Reform for Corporations & Democracies
The Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance presents a luncheon lecture with Mark Latham, Director of VoterMedia.org and Proxy Democracy.
Date: November 16, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Stanford Law School, Room 90
Lunch will be provided.
To register for this event, please click here

Mark Latham has spent years developing new tools for voters (investors and citizens) to hold elected leaders accountable in corporations and democracies. The financial crisis, changes at the SEC and the decline of mainstream media are opening doors for implementing these ideas.

The Credit Crisis: Its Roots and Aftermath- student breakfast with Tom Russo,
Former Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer of Lehman Brothers Inc.
Date: November 17, 2009 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:30-8:30am
Location: Room L107 (Littlefield Bldg),Stanford GSB
Attendance limited to 20 GSB students.
Email: corpgovernance@gsb.stanford.edu if you would like to attend. We will select attendees by lottery if necessary.

Mr. Russo now serves as Senior Counsel at Patton Boggs LLP. Event is co-sponsored by the Rock Center for Corporate Governance, GSB Center for Leadership Development and Research and the GSB Corporate Governance Research Program.