Events

As part of EA Global Bay Area 2023, we are organizing an informal dinner and hangout for anyone interested in topics at the intersection of law and longtermism. Come meet our team!

• Details and RSVP
• Oakland
• 24 February 2023

Cullen O’Keefe (Research Scientist in Policy at OpenAI and LPP Affiliate) gave a talk at Harvard Law School Effective Altruism on “Mitigating Extreme AI Risks: How Lawyers Could Help”.

• Video recording
• 19 October 2022

Prof John Bliss gave a talk at Harvard Law School Effective Altruism on “Existential Advocacy".

• Details
• 14 October 2022

The Legal Priorities Summer Institute (LPSI) is an intensive, week-long program with the goal of introducing altruistically-minded law and policy students to projects, theories, and tools relevant to tackling critical issues affecting the long-term future. Read more here.

• Oxford, UK
• 3–8 September 2022

In this seminar, Christoph Winter will speak about the intersection of AI and the law, with a focus on mitigating risks from AI.

• Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico City)
• Summer 2022

Together with the University of Hamburg, the Legal Priorities Project co-organized the 2022 Multidisciplinary Forum on Longtermism and the Law on 9-11 June 2022.

• University of Hamburg
• 9–11 June 2022
• Blog Symposium on Verfassungsblog

We may be living in one of the most consequential centuries of humanity’s history. Humans have only recently developed the power to destroy our own species, whether it be through nuclear war, runaway climate change, a global pandemic, or misaligned artificial intelligence. Before us lies the risk of our total demise or the opportunity for thousands of generations of prosperity and peace, giving us time to address our most entrenched injustices. On this scale, humanity’s history has just begun. But how can we ensure humanity’s existence doesn’t end in its infancy? This Yale Legal Priorities Society lunch talk was with Cullen O’Keefe, Founding Advisor at the Legal Priorities Project and Counsel for Policy & Governance at OpenAI.

• YouTube recording
• 15 February 2022

LPP Director Christoph Winter was featured on an episode of the podcast Hear This Idea where he talked about:

• Our global survey of legal academics about protecting future generations;
• How constitutional law might best help in this effort;
• Abstract endangerment of humanity and the "risk of creating risk";
• What LPP’s research and community-building efforts currently look like;
• And lots more!

Listen to this podcast

In this event co-hosted by the Legal Priorities Project and ITAM, best-selling author Cass Sunstein will talk about his recent book Averting Catastrophe, in which he examines how to avoid worst-case scenarios. The 20–30 min talk will be followed by a discussion with Christoph Winter. The event will be recorded and made available online.

• YouTube recording
• Zoom invitation
• 25 June 2021 (7 AM EST / 1 PM CEST)

An event organized by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, featuring presentations by Justice S.A. Bobde (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India), LPP's Christoph Winter, and more.

• Online. See details here.
• April 15, 2021

LPP Research Affiliate Cecil Abungu led this 9-week course for 61 newcomers to effective altruism (EA). The course was designed for people from countries in the global south with little to no idea about EA. As part of the program, we scheduled guest sessions on x-risk from some of the leading EA-oriented scholars.

• Online
• May–July 2021

Christoph Winter discusses his work as LPP Director in this Q&A organized by the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative.

• YouTube recording
• April 17, 2021

Presented by the "Digital Ideas Lunch Series: Law in Algorithmic Society" of the European Law School at Humboldt University Berlin, in cooperation with KCL's Centre for Technology, Ethics, Law and Society. With a talk by Christoph Winter on "The Challenges of Artificial Judicial Decision-Making for Liberal Democracy".

• Online
• April 7, 2021

Lawyers have a huge opportunity to do a lot of good in the world - but also a dizzying number of options. Should you pursue a traditional legal career and earn to give? Could you represent those affected by an issue you care about or join an EA organisation as legal counsel? Or should you go into politics and advocacy to create systemic change? In this panel discussion, Cullen O’Keefe and others discussed impactful career paths in law.

• Online
• March 31, 2021

Many come to law school to use their law degrees to do good, but questions of how to maximize impact often go underexplored. Different trajectories can have impacts that are not just different, but orders of magnitude different. How can law students think about moving toward greater impact? What kinds of legal careers are best suited to large-scale, sustainable change? In this talk, Cullen O’Keefe will start these sorts of discussions.

• Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA)
• 22 October 2020

In this seminar, Christoph Winter spoke about the intersection of AI, cognitive science and the law.

• Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico City)
• Summer 2020

In this series of guest speakers, we introduced legal priorities research to law students and faculty members.

• Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA)
• Spring 2020