Nepal, March 25 -- It is through direct conversations that young lawyers around the world can collectively create legal solutions to social problems exacerbated by technology

Social media has become both a mitigating and magnifying force for divisions between people around the world. In recent days, we have seen the connection between growing online hate speech and hate crimes in the real world. The apparent inability of legal regimes to creatively deal with this growing trend demonstrates how fast technology has outpaced the law. Even still, countries around the world have a unique asset to help the law catch-up to technology: a growing cadre of young tech-savvy lawyers and soon-to be lawyers. The development of this asset was at the ce...