Awards

• Winner of The 2024 PROSE Award in Legal Studies and Criminology Awarded by the Association of American Publishers 2024 (United States)

Overview

"Adopting a cautious and yet optimistic view of an uncertain legal future, The Legal Singularity presents a coherent account of the radically positive impact artificial intelligence may have in the coming decades on law and legal institutions. Law today is incomplete, inaccessible, unclear, underdeveloped, and often perplexing to those whom it affects. In The Legal Singularity, Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie argue that the proliferation of artificial intelligence-enabled technology - and specifically the advent of legal prediction - is on the verge of radically reconfiguring the law, our institutions, and our society for the better. Revealing the ways in which our legal institutions underperform and are expensive to administer, the book highlights the negative social consequences associated with our legal status quo. Given the infirmities of the current state of the law and our legal institutions, the silver lining is that there is ample room for improvement. With concerted action, technology can help us to ameliorate the law and our legal institutions. Inspired in part by the concept of the 'technological singularity', The Legal Singularity presents a future state in which technology facilitates the functional ""completeness"" of law, where the law is at once extraordinarily more complex in its specification than it is today, and yet operationally vastly more knowable, fairer, and clearer for its subjects. Aidid and Alarie describe the changes that will culminate in the legal singularity and explore the implications for the law and its institutions."

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Author:   Abdi Aidid ,  Benjamin Alarie
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781487529413

ISBN 10:   1487529414
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   04 July 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Reviews

"""This beautifully written book makes a compelling case that law as we know it will change dramatically, and that justice will be the biggest beneficiary of that change. The opportunity that singularity presents is the chance to deliver - finally - on law's promise, a promise it has so far left unfulfilled."" --Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School ""In The Legal Singularity, Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie offer a bold and optimistic prognosis about the future of AI in law and its institutions. This book is a thought-provoking contribution to computational law scholarship and is certain to drive critical discussions in the field."" --Amy Salyzyn, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa ""This is a powerful and important book. The fundamental insight - that artificial intelligence will transform not just the specific content of particular legal rules but also the general nature of law - is surely correct and the conclusion is impossible to ignore. The deep learning, systematic breadth, and crisp clarity with which Aidid and Alarie prosecute their argument makes The Legal Singularity essential reading for legal theorists."" --Daniel Markovits, Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Private Law, Yale Law School ""In their path-breaking book, the authors, both law and technology scholars and active technology practitioners, probe the potential for AI to transform most aspects of law: teaching, research, practice, judging, and the public's access to justice. This book will become a leading source of insights and measured judgments on profound issues imminently confronting all aspects of the legal profession as an information-intensive industry."" --Michael J. Trebilcock, University Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto ""I am sure that AI will be transformative for law and legal institutions and can make dramatic progress on a persistent and massive access to justice crisis. Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie have put together a careful case for how, indeed, to make law radically better."" --Gillian K. Hadfield, Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto and Senior Policy Advisor of OpenAI ""Timely, challenging, and profound, The Legal Singularity is an important contribution to the current debate on the extent to which it is possible and desirable for AI to be widely deployed in the delivery of legal and court services. A book that deserves to be read widely by naysayers and evangelists alike, Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie neatly combine jurisprudential scholarship with practical experience of legal technology."" --Richard Susskind OBE KC (Hon), author of Tomorrow's Lawyers"

"""""In The Legal Singularity, Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie offer a bold and optimistic prognosis about the future of AI in law and its institutions. This book is a thought-provoking contribution to computational law scholarship and is certain to drive critical discussions in the field."""" - Amy Salyzyn, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa ""Abdi Aidid and Benjamin and Alarie have writtenThis is a powerful and important book. Their fundamental insight - --that Aartificial Iintelligence will transform not just the specific content of particular legal rules but also the general nature of law - --is surely correct and the conclusion is impossible to ignore. Their central conclusion - --that AI will eventually establish a functionally complete legal singularity, in which every legal question will have an immediate, authoritative answer - --is impossible to ignore. And theThe deep learning, systematic breadth, and crisp clarity with which Aidid and Alarie prosecute their argument will makemakes The Legal Singularity essential reading for legal theorists for decades to come."" - Daniel Markovits, Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Private Law, Yale Law School ""I'm not sure the legal singularity is anywhere near, or desirable. But I am sure that AI will be transformative for law and legal institutions and can, if we steer these development well, make dramatic progress inroads on a persistent and massive access to justice crisis. Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie have put together a careful case for how, indeed, to make law radically better."" - Gillian K. Hadfield, Director, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, University of Toronto and Senior Policy Advisor, OpenAI ""In their path-breaking book, the authors, both law and technology scholars and active technology practitioners, probe the potential for AI to transform most aspects of law: teaching, research, practicse, judging, and the public's access to justice. This book will become a leading source of insights and measured judgements on profound issues imminently confronting all aspects of the legal profession as an information-intensive industry."" - Michael J. Trebilcock, University Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto ""This beautifully written book makes a compelling case that law as we know it will change dramatically, and that justice will be the biggest beneficiary of that change. Our profession is to practiseced toin ignore the ways in which we fail so much of society. The opportunity that singularity presents is the chance to deliver --- finally --- on law''s promise, a promise it has so far left unfulfilled."" - Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School ""Timely, challenging, and profound, The Legal Singularity is an important contribution to the current debate on the extent to which it is possible and desirable for AI to be widely deployed in the delivery of legal and court services. In a book that deserves to be read widely by naysayers and evangelists alike, the authors neatly combine jurisprudential scholarship with practical experience of legal technology."" - Richard Susskind OBE KC (Hon), author of Tomorrow's Lawyers"

Author Information

Abdi Aidid is a graduate of Yale Law School and assistant professor of law at the University of Toronto. Benjamin Alarie holds the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto and is an affiliated faculty member at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

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