Perspective
Jun. 8, 2016
Once information is machine readable, the transition to artificial intelligence will be rapid
Computers will one day be capable of completing many of the higher-order activities lawyers perform today. By Nicole Shanahan
Applying software and database approaches to solving complex legal questions is possible and occurring today. As a group from MIT and Harvard noted in their paper "Law is Code," software engineers are perpetually solving challenges related to complex collections of "instructions, directives, and conditional statements." Analogous to modern-day software engineering, our legal system involves the complex integration of rules emana...
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