The Song Remains the Same

Abstract

In the spring of 2020, in an eerily quiet Oxford, a weekly highlight was lunch with Anders Sandberg in his north Oxford garden. We would throw around ideas and just have a good time, not something all that easy to come by mid-lockdown. Many research stays later at Trajan House on Mill Street, and some of those ideas have turned into a book on the perils and promises of AI and law. I will not dwell on my continued connections to Oxford (or to the Linnean Society and Burlington House) in this short piece. Instead, I shall focus on the kind of events and persons you would neither encounter nor experience in any place other than Oxford, starting with a very dear friend, Professor Matthew Dyson. Matthew’s forensic legal mind, his ability to lead and command intellectual collaborations, and his sheer intelligence are indeed one of a kind. But before embarrassing Matt any further, let’s turn to how it all began – in Cambridge!