Legal Technology & Artificial Intelligence
Publications
The Center has partnered with the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), one of the world's largest standards-setting bodies, to develop an ESI Protocol that helps attorneys and judges select and use AI-based e-discovery software in a way that meets the Law Committee of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems' four principles of the trustworthy adoption of AI: Effectiveness, Competence, Accountability, and Transparency. We hope this protocol will improve both the selection of the right AI tools to match a given case's discovery plan and the proper use of these tools.
The Center's Senior Research Fellow in AI and Access to Justice, Sateesh Nori, explores housing courts and the promise of technological reform in his book, Sheltered.
Sheltered is both a personal memoir and an insider’s chronicle of a system that decides, every day, who gets to stay and who must leave. Through vivid storytelling and sharp analysis, Nori reveals the human dramas and systemic failures that unfold in Housing Court: families evicted in minutes, landlords emboldened by power and profit, and lawyers caught between compassion and exhaustion.
Events
Check out our past events on legal technology and artificial intelligence!
Sateesh Nori, a tenant's lawyer with 20 years legal services experience and author of Sheltered: Twenty Years in Housing Court, will discuss the challenges and inhumanity of Housing Court in New York City, the crisis of eviction, and his thoughts on how to reshape the dynamic between landlords and tenants. He will reflect on the role of technology and the possibilities organizations like JustFix offer tenants through the creation of technology tools to empower tenants and fight housing displacement. The Honorable Jean T. Schneider, recently retired supervising judge for the New York City Housing Court of New York County will lead what is sure to be a dynamic and informative discussion.
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Breakthrough innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) are poised to change society, commerce and every profession. This conference examined how AI will affect the law and the legal profession. Leading experts, professors, scientists, regulators, and lawyers considered how AI will affect and shape our future. With generative AI, large language models becoming proto-artificial general intelligence, AI programming other AI, and more advances, we are entering a new AI era.
How will this new era impact the legal profession? Can synthetic intelligence replace judges and lawyers? How will social justice be served or shaped? Can the court system be augmented by AI? What new AI ethics or policies should we consider?
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Artificial Intelligence is already appearing in our courts and law offices. Like any tool, automated decision systems require a degree of competence to be used responsibly. As the legal profession increasingly interacts with and relies on artificial intelligence, it becomes increasingly important that members of the profession understand it.
At this conference, we unveiled two different ways to provide an introductory level of education on some of the key issues, one focusing on technical competence and statistical literacy and the other focusing on key ethical issues. Last, we hosted a discussion dedicated to the important issue of ensuring that our judiciary understands the automated decisions systems that are already appearing in both civil and criminal cases.
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We are witnessing the rise of artificial intelligence in every aspect of our society and its institutions. A mix of increasing technological capabilities is now coupled with growing recognition that the world needs a set of norms for governing AI. From warfare to welfare, and from the boardroom to the courtroom, intelligent machines make decisions that affect the life, liberty, wellbeing and right to opportunity of human beings. The summit is aimed at identifying frameworks that could support a set of actionable ethical principles, policy frameworks, new codes of conduct, and regulations, to help society benefit from technological advancements, while mitigating their risks.
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