Call for Papers for Symposium Issue: Law as Data, Data as Law Law, Technology and Humans Vol 6(3) 2024!

In recent years, there has been rapid change in the capacity of information and communications technology to supplement the skills of lawyers (‘lawtech’). Artificial intelligence (AI) may radically transform legal practice, the work of courts, and legal education. Law is increasingly subjected to quantitative analysis, while legal rules themselves are being ‘translated’ into software systems. This may bring the practice of law from an individualised set of hunches and tacit intuitions to a more data-driven, scientific and objective approach, or fossilise it into opaque and difficult to challenge infrastructures.

Topics include:

Legal practice in a world of abundant data
Incorporating generative AI into legal education
Videogames and other tools in legal education
The future of legal services in a digitised context
The rise of legal analytics
Regulation of artificial intelligence in the legal services market
Digital technology, dispute resolution & access to justice
New online business models for lawyers
Researching the digital transformation in law
Redesigning the digital curriculum.

The symposium will be edited by Dr Rónán Kennedy (University of Galway) and Dr Brian Barry (Trinity College Dublin), in collaboration with the editors of Law, Technology and Humans.

Full Papers due: 18 July 2024 via https://lthj.qut.edu.au/