SubTech 2026

This is a biennial conference exploring substantive legal technology since 1990.

Buenos Aires, June 24-26

About

The Department of Law of the Universidad de San Andrés and its Center for Intellectual Property and Innovation (CPINN) will be hosting the 19th Edition of the International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice aka SubTech. This is a biennial conference exploring substantive legal technology since 1990.
Every two years since 1990, the SubTech conference brings together scholars, practitioners, and technologists interested in the intersection of technology and legal practice and education (both broadly defined) to venues of Salzburg, Chicago, Paris, Montreal, Stockholm, Cambridge (MA), Warwick (UK), Seattle, Oslo, Williamsburg, Vienna, New York, Zaragoza, Richmond, Nashville, Singapore, and Tallinn.

An international multidisciplinary gathering of specialists who work in the confluence of legal education and the technology of law, SubTech is dedicated to distinctively legal applications of information technology, as used or studied in legal education.
By “substantive” we mean technologies of law teaching or practice that involve significant legal content. Artificial intelligence, computer-aided instruction, practice systems, online legal research, and Web-based applications are typical examples. By “legal education” we mean all contexts in which law is studied and taught, not just traditional law schools.

Confirmed Speakers

Marc Lauritsen (Capstone Practice Systems)
Dan Hunter (Kings College London, United Kingdom)
Federico Ast (Kleros)
David Mielnik (Inteligencia Legal, Argentina)
Ken Satoh (Center for Juris-Informatics, Japan)
Juan Ignacio Nigrelli (AGIP, Argentina)
Juan Manuel Vazquez (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Pamela Echeverría (US Embassy in Argentina)
Georg Borges (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)
Amy Schmitz (The Ohio State University, United States)
Kevin D. Ashley (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
Jorge Balmaceda Hoyos (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile, University of Galway)
Hugo Cunha Lança (Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Portugal)
Monica Goyal (Briefly Legal LLC)
John Murdock (Bradley, United States)
Milagros Santamaría (Argentina)
Caitlin Moon (Vanderbilt University)
Pablo Palazzi (CETYS, Universidad de San Andrés)
Tom Martin (Lawdroid)
Maria Lourdes Vázquez (Universidad de San Andrés)
Viktor Mayer Schönberger (University of Oxford)
Larry farmer (Brigham Young University)
Milagros Santamaria (Crecimiento, Argentina)
Matias Fischbock (ALTA, Argentina)

Definitive program

Learn about the biographies of some of our speakers

How to Reach Us

We are now accepting proposals from those interested in participating as speakers at SubTech 2026.
Proposals can be submitted via email to subtech-2026@udesa.edu.ar

We also invite anyone interested in the event to join our mailing list to exchange ideas and engage in discussions in the lead-up to the conference:
https://groups.google.com/g/subtech-2026