Transformative legal technology and the rule of law

Abstract

This article distinguishes two types of legal technology: ‘cheaper lawyers’ (or simply replacing the cognitive operations of lawyers in their existing domains with technology) and ‘transformative artificial legal cognition’ (or introducing the cognitive operations characteristic of lawyers in contexts where human lawyers cannot economically be deployed at all). It then makes the case for finding advances in egalitarian access to justice and the rule of law primarily in the latter category.

Legaltech and Lawtech: Global Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities

“…The second cluster is focused on Justice, as evidenced by the main keywords involved: Access to justice, design thinking, law students, rule of law. Within this topic there are works within what one could classify as philosophy of law, who argue that advances in equal access to justice and the rule of law lie primarily in the introduction of lawyers' own cognitive operations in contexts where human lawyers cannot be deployed for purely economic reasons (Gowder 2018).…”

Legal Technology: Assessment of the Legal Tech Industry’s Potential

“…Two each were published in Family Law Quarterly ([09], [10]), Legal Information Management ([02], [21]), Artificial Intelligence and Law ( [30], [31]), American Journal of Trial Advocacy ( [44], [46]), International Review of Law, Computers & Technology [35], [58]), University of Ottawa Press ( [60], [61]), and Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies ( [15], [63]). The remaining journals included one text each on a given topic: Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics [03], The Journal of Equipment Lease Financing [04], Future Internet [05], Technology Innovation Management Review [07], Iowa Law Review [11], International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care [14], Union of Jurists of Romanis Law Review [16], Systemic Practice and Action Research [18], Revista Direito GV [20], Northwestern University Law Review [22], Journal of Nursing Law [23], The Entrepreneurial Executive [24], Texas Law Review [26], Journal of Digital Asset Management [27], Information Systems Frontiers [28], Journal of Financial Service Professionals [29], Federal Communications Law Journal [33], International review of Law, Computers & Technology [35], IT Professional [36], International Financial Law Review [37], Daedalus [38], IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering [39], Journal of East Asia and International Law [40], Croatian International Relations Review [41], International Tax Review [42], University of Toronto Law Journal [43]…”

AI-Based Decisiona and Disappearance of Law

“…Remarkably, AI is being used in decision support "in complex problems that involve uncertainty, large amounts of data, and are not deterministic". 21 While AI can be a boon for simple and repetitive tasks, not all uncertainty needs to be resolved. Certainty puts an end to discussion.…”

“…According to Paul Ricoeur, along with the capacities to speak, to act, and to talk about one's life, the capacity to take responsibility is the most important criterion of being a human and at the same time 21 the anthropological prerequisite of law. In its the most general form, the capacity for responsibility is understood as the ability to recognize that it's you who bears responsibility for your actions, as well as the ability the obligation to compensate the any damage caused by these actions and/or to undergo punishment for them.…”