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Law Practice

Aug. 14, 2020

Clamor for open access to court records bolstered by AI advances

There has been an increasing call for enabling greater open access to court records of the U.S. justice system, which catches some by surprise since such court records are generally considered within the public domain and thus it would logically be presumed that those archives are already sufficiently available.

Lance Eliot

Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.

Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.

There has been an increasing call for enabling greater open access to court records of the U.S. justice system, which catches some by surprise since such court records are generally considered within the public domain and thus it would logically be presumed that those archives are already sufficiently available.

The rub according to those making such a clamor is that there are excessive financial and technical obstacles in the way o...

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