Is Law Computable? Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence

Author: Simon Deakin; Christopher Markou
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509945597

Published In: July 2022
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781509937066

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What does computable law mean for the autonomy, authority, and legitimacy of the legal system? Are we witnessing a shift from Rule of Law to a new Rule of Technology? Should we even build these things in the first place?

This unique volume collects original papers by a group of leading international scholars to address some of the fascinating questions raised by the encroachment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into more aspects of legal process, administration, and culture. Weighing near-term benefits against the longer-term, and potentially path-dependent, implications of replacing human legal authority with computational systems, this volume pushes back against the more uncritical accounts of AI in law and the eagerness of scholars, governments, and LegalTech developers, to overlook the more fundamental - and perhaps 'bigger picture' - ramifications of computable law.

With contributions by Simon Deakin, Christopher Markou, Mireille Hildebrandt, Roger Brownsword, Sylvie Delacroix, Lyria Bennet Moses, Ryan Abbott, Jennifer Cobbe, Lily Hands, John Morison, Alex Sarch, and Dilan Thampapillai, as well as a foreword from Frank Pasquale.

1. From Rule of Law to Legal Singularity

Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge, UK and Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge, UK

2. Ex Machina Lex: Exploring the Limits of Legal Computability

Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge, UK and Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge, UK

3. Code-driven Law: Freezing the Future and Scaling the Past

Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

4. Towards a Democratic Singularity? Algorithmic Governmentality, the Eradication of Politics ? And the Possibility of Resistance

John Morison, Queen's University, Belfast, UK

5. Legal Singularity and the Reflexivity of Law

Jennifer Cobbe, University of Cambridge, UK

6. Artificial Intelligence and Legal Singularity: The Thin End of the Wedge, the Thick End of the Wedge, and the Rule of Law

Roger Brownsword, King's College London, UK