The hackathon is a workshop, meet-up or conference bringing experts from
different disciplines together with technologists looking for
innovative ways to tackle long-standing problems.
The idea is to create an app, service, policy proposal or other work
product that can address a real-world problem.
"To most lawyers, 'hackathon' probably sounds like an invitation to
commit felonies and sets them fleeing," says Dazza Greenwood, a lawyer
and research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. "But to people who get it, a
legal hackathon is about lawyers, engineers and policymakers interested
in solving problems at the intersection of the law and technology."
By Jason Krause, ABA Journal.
