Smoke and Mirrors or Science? Teaching Law with Computers - A Reply to Cass Sunstein on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Science

Volume IX, Issue 2, Winter 2002-2003 Smoke and Mirrors or Science? Teaching Law with Computers - A Reply to Cass Sunstein on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Science

Book Note Culture Clash: Law and Science in America

The impact of scientific progress on legal doctrine is pervasive yet subtle. Research projects such as the Human Genome Initiative, nuclear fusion, and artificial intelligence all have the potential to shape legal standards by changing the way humanity views itself; however, Culture Clash: Law and Science in America, by Steven Goldberg, warns against allowing the current trend of a preeminent "...

Artificial Intelligence and Legal Theory at Law Schools

Currently, Artificial Intelligence and Law is an interdisciplinary field somewhere on the border between Computer Science and Law. For many reasons, this interdisciplinarity hampers its further development and the transfer of its results into both legal theory and legal practice. In this position statement, we argue that AI and Law should become part of legal theory, or rather a “school” of leg...

A Comparative Study on Presumption of Marriage Rule and Genetic Testing for Proving Parentage Under Iranian Law

Family is the most important social group, and the survival of society depends on the survival of the family and its survival depends on legitimate parentage and legal ties. Therefore, the issue of proving the parentage is one of the most sensitive issues in the Islamic law and the legislator has tried to preserve it by enacting laws. From the beginning of Islam until now, in Imami jurisprudenc...

Modeling legal argument - reasoning with cases and hypotheticals

Modeling Legal Argument: Reasoning with Cases and Hypotheticals 1 is the second book in the series on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning edited by L. Thome McCarty and Edwina Rissland, two of the leaders in a relatively new field that attempts to apply techniques of computer science, formal decision theory, and artificial intelligence ("AT") to law and legal reasoning. Like the previou...