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/professional 🗂️
i work on a wide range of projects that cover a number of subjects and disciplines. i believe there is a symbiotic relationship between researching, teaching, creating, and experimenting. i believe there is lots of overlapping opportunity in the spaces between traditional disciplines.
/current
Legal Engineer Upside Jan 2022 - Present
Co-Founder Folks Capital Aug 2021 - Present
Fellow MIT Connection Science Aug 2019 - Present
Editor in Chief MIT Computational Law Report Aug 2019 - Present
Founder, Co-Manager KC Legal Hackers May 2015 - Present
/accomplishments ⛰️
some of the things i am most proud of:
- selected as 1 of 18 millenials changing the face of legal tech by law.com (2018)
- twice invited to speak at the U.N. World Data Forum
- early stage employee at RiskGenius, an InsurTech that exited in 2020
- founding editor-in-chief of the MIT Computational Law Report and colleague instrucor for the MIT Media Lab’s Global Ventures Course and IAP Computational Law Workshop Course
- technical advisor for Data Rights Protocol
/experience 📜
Technical Advisor - Data Rights Protocol Consumer Reports Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Legal Engineer Brighthive Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Consultant Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
Policy and Operations RiskGenius Mar 2017 - June 2019
Innovation Fellow American Bar Association Center for Innovation Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
Document Review and e-Discovery Hire Counsel Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Innovation Policy Intern Kansas City Mayor Slay James’ Office May 2015 - Aug 2015
/education 🏫
Juris Doctor University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law May 2013 - May 2016
Bachelor of Arts - American Studies Oklahoma State University Aug 2009 - Dec 2012
/selected-publications 📚
2021 - M Ma, B Wilson “The Legislative Recipe: Syntax for Machine-Readable Legislation” Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property (Forthcoming)
2021 - B Wilson, E Absher “Reimagining Rent: From Analog to Computational Tokenization of Community Equity Interests” PrePrint on ResearchGate
2020 - M Ganado, J Ellul, G Pace, S Tendon, B Wilson, “Mapping the Future of Legal Personality” MIT Computational Law Report
2020 - D Greenwood, G Nadeau, P Tsormpatzoudi, B Wilson, J Saviano, A Pentland, “COVID-19 Contact Tracing Privacy Principles” MIT Computational Law Report
2020 - R Raskar, … B Wilson, … “COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Mobile Apps: Evaluation and Assessment for Decision Makers” arXiv
2019 - B Wilson “Blockchain and the Law of the Cat: What Cryptokitties Might Teach” 88 UMKC L. Rev. 365
2018 - B Wilson “Five Steps for Using Legal Data to Improve Drafting” Towards Data Science
2017 - B Wilson, S Cali “Smart Cities, Smarter Regulations: The Case for Algorithmic Regulation of the Sharing Economy” 83 UMKC L. Rev. 4
/selected-presentations-workshops-lectures 👨🏻🏫
2021 Climate Change and New Technologies: Aligning Public Administration and Social Activation around Decentralized Local and Global Solutions Context setting: Computational Law, Public Administration, and Blockchain Law and Policy
2020 UN World Data Forum Measuring & Combatting Modern Slavery with Data-Driven Solutions
2020 ABA Business Law Section Virtual Annual Meeting (legal) moonshots
2020 RadicalxChange Multiplying Utopias
2020 Earth 2030 @ CodeX Future Law Blockchain Ethics Panel
2020 ATIS Time and Money at the New York Stock Exchange Legal Aspects of DLT
2019 MIT Media Lab Symposium on Blockchain, Robotics, and AI Automated Legal Entities
2019 Block (Legal) Tech at Chicago Kent School of Law Building for Law
2019 Forbes presents Imagination in Action How Cryptokitties Might Information the Infrastructure for Computational Law
2019 RelativityFest Interoperable Legal Apps and Services
2018 University College London Hack the Law
2018 ABA Annual Meeting Fellows Spotlight
2018 BSides KC Computational Law Village
2018 UMKC Busines Law Association Keeping Business Out of Court: Emerging Compliance Opportunities for Lawyers
2017 KC Cyber Security Conference Moving from IT Security to Enterprise Risk Management
2017 RelativityFest Spokesperson Bootcamp: Grow Your Thought Leadership Through Media Interviews
2017 BSides KC The Symbiotic Relationship of Information Security and Cyber Insurance
/headshot 😎
/bio 📓
Bryan is interested in reimagining the ways technology, design, and visualization can be combined to improve the function of legal systems. Bryan’s work exploring the edges of legal innovation has earned him a position as Legal Engineer at Upside and an appointment to MIT Connection Science as a Fellow, where he is serving as the Editor in Chief of the MIT Computational Law Report. Previously listed by Legaltech News as 1 of the 18 Millenials Changing the Face of Legal Tech, Bryan has helped organize CLEs, conferences, and events and been invited to speak at workshops and conferences across North America and Europe.