Transformative legal technology and the rule of law

Paul Gowder

doi:10.3138/utlj.2017-0047

Transformative legal technology and the rule of law

Paul Gowder^*

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	82-105
Number of pages	24
Journal	University of Toronto Law Journal
Volume	68
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3138/utlj.2017-0047
State	Published - Jan 2018

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence
Equality
Legal Cognition
Legal Technology
Rule Of Law

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Sociology and Political Science
Law

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