🕐 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM ET | Legal Bolts: Bright Insights on Development Impact
AI for Access to Law and Justice - Building Colombia's First Country-wide LLM: This talk will present Colombia's groundbreaking initiative to develop the country's first special-purpose LLM designed exclusively for legal information access and state services. This pioneering project demonstrates how academic-private partnerships can create scalable, replicable AI solutions that democratize access to justice in civil law jurisdictions.
AI for Access to Law and Justice
Building Colombia's First Country-wide Legal Large Language Model (LLM) through Partnerships
(Academia)
(Private Sector)
Featured Speakers
Antonio Barreto Rozo, Esq.
Law School, Universidad de los Andes
Academia × Private SectorAssociate Professor, Law School of Universidad de los Andes. Antonio Barreto Rozo is ad hoc justice of the Colombian Constitutional Court and associate professor at the Law School of Universidad de los Andes, where he directs the Graduate Law School, the Public Law Research Group, and the Universidad de los Andes research hotbed group on AI and Law (Lab IA / Law). He holds a Philosophy Master from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Master's and Doctoral degrees in Constitutional Law from Yale University.
David F. Varela, Esq.
Director, Center for Economic Regulation and International Competitiveness, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana representing LexBase
David F. Varela is an international consultant on justice reform to governments, with over thirty years of experience in Canada, the States, Latin America, and the Middle East. He has led the design, supervision, and evaluation of thirty programs and projects financed by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, among other clients.
- Doctor of International Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
- LL.M., McGill University
- LL.B. from Pontificia Universida Javeriana
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