AI and Law

The book explores diverse legal tech applications, from "robot-judges" to computational law, systematically classifying their impacts and distinguishing between hype and reality. It examines scandals and ethical issues in legal tech worldwide, highlighting accountability challenges and real-world consequences.

Aurelia TamöLarrieux is an associate professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Faculty of Law, heading the team of Digital and Computational Law and leading the Legal Design & Code Lab. Previously, she was an assistant professor at Maastricht University and a member of the Law & Tech Lab. She has a background in law and economics and specializes in research at the intersection of law and digital technologies with numerous publications and projects in the field of privacy, data protection, design approaches, transparency of automated decision-making, automatically processable regulation, and trust in automation. Clement Guitton is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St. Gallen, focusing on topics around law and technology, or more generally on understanding and developing policy solutions around technology. He previously worked on cyber security, bringing together the fields of politics and technology. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles, and AI and Law is his fourth book. He has degrees in telecommunication engineering, international affairs, and finance. In the past, he worked in counter-espionage, consulting at the International Telecommunication Union and as a political analyst for a large reinsurance company. Simon Mayer is a professor at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he heads the Chair for Interaction- and Communication-based Systems. Previously, he worked at Siemens Corporate Technology in Berkeley, USA, most recently as senior key expert for Smart and Interacting Systems, and afterward headed the Cognitive Products research group at the Austrian COMET research center Pro2Future at Graz University of Technology. Simon holds degrees in Computer Science, Economics and Business Administration, and Secondary and Higher Education; he has cöauthored more than 200 journal, magazine, conference, and workshop publications on the topics of ubiquitous computing, the Web of Things, autonomous systems, and interoperability, and is serving on the steering committee of the International Conference on the Internet of Things as well as the editorial board of the IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine.

Chapter 1: Automation of Law. Chapter 2: Law and Computer Science Interactions. Chapter 3: Automatically Processable Regulation. Chapter 4: Challenges and Controversies. Chapter 5: Needed (Public) Debates. Chapter 6: How Education Should Shift. Chapter 7: Exercises. Epilogue. Acknowledgements. Guiding Approaches for Solutions. References.