AI and Law

<p>This book provides insights into how AI is changing legal practice government processes and individuals’ access to those processes encouraging each of us to consider how technological advances are changing the legal system. Particularly and distinct from current debates on how to regulate AI this books focuses on how the progressive merger between computational methods and legal rules changes the very structure and application of the law itself.</p><p>We investigate how automation is changing the legal analysis legal rulemaking legal rule extraction and application of legal rules and how this impacts individuals policymakers civil servants and society at large. We show through many examples that a debate on how automation is changing the law is needed which must revolve around the democratic legitimacy of the automation of legal processes and be informed by the technical feasibility and tradeoffs of specific endeavors.</p>