Computational Legal Futures
4 publications.
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Newest first- 9 April 2024
Bridging Disciplinary Disconnects: The Role of Legal Experts in Legal NLP
The potential of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to transform the legal industry is increasingly undeniable. NLP can be used to reimagine legal search, improve legal reasoning and writing, answer legal questions, or extract…
- 25 May 2023
Transparency by Design for Large Language Models
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Robert Mahari and Tobin South
Large Language Models – like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude – are akin to modern day oracles: they provide impressively useful outputs without revealing their reasoning.
- 8 February 2023
Justice in a Vacuum?
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Robert Mahari and Tobin South
From the Palaeolithic era until the mid-1800s, tally sticks represented an international system for recording debts. Debtors and creditors would break a piece of wood or bone in half, and the unique fracture memorialized the…
- 27 September 2022
Legal Dynamism
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland and Robert Mahari
Shortly after the start of the French Revolution, Thomas Jefferson wrote a now famous letter to James Madison. He argued that no society could make a perpetual constitution, or indeed a perpetual law, that binds future…