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Technology,
Law Practice

Sep. 17, 2020

Legal micro-directives and AI: the future of the law?

Prognostications are that legal micro-directives consisting of proactively distributed real-time snippets of the law will inevitably become the essence of law and will especially be carried forth throughout society by being AI-enabled.

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.

A future-of-law topic that continues to gain traction entails the coming emergence of legal micro-directives. In case you haven't yet heard about it, a legal micro-directive is essentially a legal rule that is enlivened by being computer-based and inevitably powered by artificial intelligence.

Let's unpack that definition.

Currently, a legal rule is usually paper-based, hidden from view, hard to fi...

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