Harvard Law Today: The Law and the Digital World

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Photo Credit: Martha Stewart The AGTech Forum is the brainchild of Lecturer on Law Jim Tierney, who served as Maine’s attorney general from 1980 to 1990 and directs the Attorney General Clinic at HLS.

Photo Credit: Martha Stewart
The AGTech Forum is the brainchild of Lecturer on Law Jim Tierney, who served as Maine’s attorney general from 1980 to 1990 and directs the Attorney General Clinic at HLS.

 
“‘Attorneys general did not have access to the very top experts, who could see not only the tech issues now, but the tech issues of the future,’ says Tierney, who often consults with attorneys general… ‘They’ve had to make tough prosecutorial decisions about tech-related matters, [without] access to those experts.

So, Tierney pitched Berkman Klein Center Directors and Professors Chris Bavitz and Jonathan Zittrain ’95 on the idea of hosting tech conferences for attorneys general. The AGTech Forum fits neatly with Berkman Klein’s long-term goals, says Bavitz….”
— Erick Trickey, "The Law and the Digital World ," Harvard Law Today