Mapping the Issues of Automated Legal Systems: Why Worry About Automatically Processable Regulation?
Journal
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2022-07-04
Author(s)
Abstract
The field of computational law has increasingly moved into the focus of the scientific community, with recent research analysing its issues and risks. In this article, we seek to draw a structured and comprehensive list of societal issues that the deployment of automatically processable regulation could entail. We do this by systematically exploring attributes of the law that are being challenged through its encoding and by taking stock of what issues current projects in this field raise. This article adds to the current literature not only by providing a needed framework to structure arising issues of computational law but also by bridging the gap between theoretical literature and practical implementation. Key findings of this article are: (1) The primary benefit (efficiency vs. accessibility) sought after when encoding law matters with respect to the issues such an endeavor triggers; (2) Specific characteristics of a project—project type, degree of mediation by computers, and potential for divergence of interests—each impact the overall number of societal issues arising from the implementation of automatically processable regulation.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Springer
Pages
29
Division(s)
Eprints ID
266835
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Guitton_2022_APR_Issues.pdf
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