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Technology,
Law Practice

Sep. 25, 2020

Legal argumentation and artificial intelligence

The core of our adversarial approach relies upon the essential groundwork of legal argumentation. Lawyers and legal professionals are gradually being assisted by AI-enabled legal argumentation and the potential exists for autonomously performed AI legal argumentation in the future.

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.

Humans argue. Some believe that humans argue because it is a necessary means to arrive at suitable results, while others suggest that argumentation is an intrinsic nature of humanity and we are essentially compelled via DNA to argue, no matter the necessity or value thereof.

Inarguably, legal argumentation is crucial to our adversarial form of justice. Cooked into the very fabric of justice and ingrained indelibly throughout the judi...

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