AI and Law: How Automation is Changing the Law

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.

The authors 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.

About the authors
Aurelia Tamo‑Larrieux 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. 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. 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.