Response to LawtechUK’s discussion paper on AI in legal services
Last year LawtechUK published a discussion paper on the adoption of AI technology in legal services, asking for responses to... Read more
NLLP 2022 Workshop: A Review
In December, I was fortunate to be able to attend the NLLP Workshop (the recorded livestream is here). The Workshop... Read more
Caselaw revisited: Recht.nl’s case law tracker assessed with the Typology of Legal Technologies
In a recent news item, the important Dutch legal knowledge platform Recht.nl announced that they have launched a new case... Read more
The medium is the message: some technical notes on our Typology of Legal Tech
Creating our forthcoming Typology of Legal Technologies was an interesting challenge. The evolution of the research methodology and the development... Read more
RaC ‘n RoL: to have or not to have legal effect?
On 14 March 2022 I had the privilege of delivering the Keynote at the RaC2022 Plenary, followed by the Opening... Read more
A response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on legal services regulation
Written by Pauline and Laurence in December 2021, for submission to the Scottish Government’s Consultation on legal services regulation reform.... Read more
The Data Infrastructure of the Courts and the Rule of Law
Problem setting Imagine you went to court fifty years ago to obtain a paper copy from a court clerk in... Read more
Robust AI and robust law (Part II: Robust law)
Recently (March 2021) I was invited to speak at the Citizen Debate on AI & Law to present a European... Read more
Robust AI and robust law (Part I: Robust AI)
Recently (February 2021) I was invited to come and chat a bit about my work on the cusp of law... Read more
Keep the Change: preserving hermeneutical justice and normative agency in law
The contribution by Sylvie Delacroix to our annual COHUBICOL Philosophers’ Seminar on the ‘interpretability problem in machine learning’ discussed the... Read more
AI in law: a move? A game changer?
In War and Peace, Tolstoy observes that a common feature unites the attempts to understand physical motion and historical movement:... Read more
Technological mediation and the Human in the L(aw)
Here is a recording of my presentation ‘Technological Mediation and the Human in the L(aw)’ delivered at the 2020 Conference... Read more
Technological mediation vs. the Rule of Law
Below is a recording of a presentation I gave at this year’s conference on the Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations (PHTR),... Read more
Legal Tech, or Story of Your [Legal] Life
Below is a re-recording of a talk given by Laurence at Gikii 2019 entitled ‘Legal Tech, or Story of Your... Read more
Promoting Artificial Legal Intelligence while securing Legal Protection: the Brazilian challenge
The present blog post aims at confronting one of the core concepts of COHUBICOL, that of legal protection, through the... Read more
Computational legalism
This post summarises computational legalism, a concept I developed in my doctoral thesis that is borne of the parallel between... Read more
Automated hermeneutical injustice?
Joy Buolamwini’s work uncovered racially discriminatory patterns in facial recognition datasets and software systems – only when wearing a white... Read more
Normative shortcuts and the hermeneutic singularity
Legal normativity is an important theme for COHUBICOL, particularly how its nature might change when the medium that embodies it... Read more
Legal theory and theoretical CS
This project will dive head-on into the assumptions of data-driven and code-driven law, to unearth their implications for the protection... Read more