http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/9bcb547843ba859d https://verfassungsblog.de/can-we-do-without-legal-scholars/ Can We Do Without Legal Scholars? - The Case for Second Scholarship in Legal Research Novelli, Claudio Floridi, Luciano eng 2026-10-21 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 AI Artificial Intelligence LLMs Philosophy of Law Scholarship Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The impact of AI on research has already led to much reflection in general and, more recently, on legal scholarship in particular, including first attempts to measure how far the practice has spread, and to examine what happens when generative systems interpose themselves between readers and law review articles. On a similar note, we have recently argued that the way researchers build their scholarship is itself under threat, and that the response required is institutional. In this blogpost, we extend that argument to legal research, where it acquires a further consequence.