Tony Lai
Fellow at Legal.io
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Lai is a lawyer, researcher, and technology entrepreneur who translates legal complexity into scalable governance, data stewardship, and community sovereignty solutions. As Co-Chair of the CodeX Stanford Blockchain Group since 2017, he shapes research, policy influence, and cross-disciplinary dialogue, and he co-founded the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy. He co-founded Legal.io to scale legal access, serves on its board, and advises governments, startups, and nonprofits at the intersection of computational law, smart contracts, digital identity, and data governance. A Stanford d.school alumnus who helped design Stanford Law School’s first legal technology course and helped establish StartX's legal partnerships, he brings design thinking to legal tech and innovation. Based in San Francisco, with degrees from Oxford and Stanford, his work continues through projects like Mothertree Labs, applying smart contracts and composable governance to ecological intelligence.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
GDL/LPC, Law, GDL/LPC, Law at BPP Law SchoolBA, MA (Oxon), Modern History, BA, MA (Oxon), Modern History at University of OxfordHigh School, High School at Oakham SchoolLL.M, Law, Science and Technology, LL.M, Law, Science and Technology at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Chinese, French, German
Github Skills (3)
modeless7
velocity4
macos2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tonygives/tonygives.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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