Hello and welcome to What’s Next, your weekly briefing on the future of law. I’m Ben Hancock and I’m writing this edition at Stanford University’s Digital Cities Summit, where issues like digital privacy and self-driving cars are hot topics. Luckily no one’s talking about automating journalism (yet)—although I can’t say the same about contract law.

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