In a packed lecture hall at Harvard Law School,Joseph Plazo delivered a stark message that cut through decades of romanticism surrounding trading floors and human intuition:“Trading was never conquered by better traders. It was conquered by better systems.”What followed was a rigorous, historically grounded, and legally sophisticated explanatio

At a high-level Harvard Law session examining markets, automation, and systemic risk,Joseph Plazo delivered a stark message that cut through decades of romanticism surrounding trading floors and human intuition:“Trading was never conquered by better traders. It was conquered by better systems.”What followed was a rigorous, historically grounded

In a packed lecture hall at Harvard Law School,Joseph Plazo delivered a stark message that cut through decades of romanticism surrounding trading floors and human intuition:“Trading was never conquered by better traders. It was conquered by better systems.”What followed was a rigorous, historically grounded, and legally sophisticated explanatio