Referring to the" Drunk-O-Meter," a then-recently invented gadget for proving a driver's
alcohol impairment, one legal scholar wrote in 1953 that"[t] he age-old dream of man has …

Technology has made a significant impact on the legal profession. Most lawyers know, for
example, that commercial systems can retrieve cases and statutes from large databases by …

It has been an unspoken assumption that the law is made by humans for humans. That
assumption no longer holds: The subject of information policy is increasingly flows between …

The construction of computer systems for sentencing decision support has lately been of
increasing interest. Different approaches and models exist for such systems. Of the available …

The use of artificial intelligence at sentencing decisions has in recent years received
increasing academic attention. This is not surprising. Computer-run algorithms have …

The statute of limitations was about to run and attorney John Smith was faced with a highly
complex problem in a very difficult field of law. Fortunately, Smith had access to LEX, a legal …

1. Replace judges completely with an algorithm which determines sentence having taken
into account all relevant case characteristics and all relevant principles, purposes, and …

The great attraction of comparative law—whatever this term actually means—undoubtedly to
some extent for legal scholars consists in the boundless freedom it offers. As shown in the …

For my dissertation I have constructed a computer tool called LEGALESE that assists
lawyers in the construction of legal arguments. The specific type of legal argument involved …

The list of occupations constituting" professions" has grown over the years, and today is
generally considered to include physicians, surgeons, dentists, pharmacists, attorneys …