Thinking Machines, Thinking Lawyers
As AI’s capabilities enhance and it gradually seeps into the legal field, what happens to how lawyers think and write? This symposium aims to initiate a conversation around many such unanswered questions and explores epistemic justice, research integrity, institutional and regulatory responses, and the comparative and archival dimensions of knowledge production in the age of AI.
Responding to the influx of AI into scholarly writing, in the legal domain and elsewhere, poses real challenges. It will be neither possible nor appropriate to develop a set of determinative rules covering all possible uses. Ethical frameworks do not operate in this way. Instead, they should be principles-based, allowing them to accommodate both the evolution of the technology and developments in scholarly practice taking place in the light of shared commitments to research integrity.
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This symposium explores the relationship between AI and the production and delivery of legal knowledge. It also interrogates how emerging AI-based capabilities are shaping the way lawyers think, research, and act. It does not claim to present perfect answers, but is an attempt to initiate conversations on the multifaceted changes posed by AI-assisted capabilities to our traditional ways of doing legal research and teaching.
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