Mastodon or bluesky?
I'm a similar age and left earlier this year, starting a new position in a couple of weeks. Although I was a late starter so didn't get as far up the ladder as you have, it's plain to see what the conditions are like the further one progresses. The thought of decades of that filled me with dread.
the longer I work in HE, the more I realise the people at the top really don't value academic staff. being treated as if you are essentially superfluous to the university that only exists because of your work is pretty galling. but also: we're constantly being told we don't work in the 'real world'.
and last but not least ๐ฉ๐ผโ๐ซ Our interactive workshop on assessing legal tech from a Rule of Law perspective, also developed with Masha Medvedeva: publications.cohubicol.com/typology/tea...
๐'Argument by Numbers: The Normative Impact of Statistical Legal Tech' in Communitas: osf.io/preprints/so...aclanthology.org/2023.nllp-1.9
It reflects the thinking we have developed in our other work in this field over the past few years, e.g. ๐ฐ 'ChatGPT and the Future of Law' in the Journal of the The Law Society of Scotland (lawscot.org.uk/members/jour... )
๐ Read the study at publications.cohubicol.com/research-stu... (HTML and PDF)
Deliverables from the COHUBICOL project
Therefore: ๐๐ผ Avoiding the pitfalls while embracing the benefits requires sensitivity (i) to how the systems work, and (ii) to the features, principles and institutions that underpin modern law.
We conclude that: ๐๐ผ legal technologies have the potential to improve legal protection and to strengthen the Rule of Law ๐๐ผ *but* depending on how, by whom and the contexts in which they are employed, they might in fact do the opposite
โ๏ธ We point to the role of regulators, Bar Associations and Law Societies in providing guidance about the use of such technologies