This Event is CANCELLED. Using AI in Legal Practice: the good, the bad and the ugly

Abstract

We are now in the era of an unprecedented though surreptitious innovation of legal method. In this lecture, Professor Mireille Hildebrandt will introduce a way to map, compare and assess a new range of legal technologies that are claimed to offer both efficiency in the legal services market and more democratic assess to justice. She will explain some of the implications of integrating such ‘legal tech’ into legal practice, for instance legal search engines, large language models such as ChatGPT, prediction of judgments and programming languages for drafting legislation as software code. Lawyers and law students will need to develop new skills to critically understand these tools, before either embracing or rejecting them, learning how to play around with their limitations as well as the opportunities they may offer for a more efficient, fair and democratic access to justice. The lecture builds on the Typology of Legal Technologies that was developed in an ambitious and fertile collaboration between lawyers and computer scientists, available here: https://publications.cohubicol.com/typology/.  

This lecture is free and open to all. Registration is not required to attend in person.