Law school teaches you how to think. It doesn’t teach you what to build.
I’ve spent the last few years practicing technology law — reviewing SaaS contracts, structuring startup formations, negotiating licensing deals. And the more I work with technology companies, the more I realize that the most interesting problems aren’t in the contracts. They’re in the gap between what the technology can do and what the law has figured out how to handle.
That gap is where I want to be. Not just advising companies that are building in it, but building in it myself.
Cornell Tech’s LLM program sits at exactly that intersection. It’s not a traditional legal education. It’s designed for lawyers who want to understand technology deeply enough to shape how it’s governed — not just react to it after the fact.
I don’t know exactly what I’ll build there. That’s the point. Tabula rasa.