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DESCRIPTION:We regret to announce that this conference has been cancelled.
 \n\nJoin us for an AI and the Law talk with Dr Christopher Markou\, who wi
 ll consider the consequences of using machine learning to replicate core f
 unctions of legal systems.\n\nAbstract\n\nThe use of machine learning (ML)
  to replicate aspects of legal decision making is already well advanced\, 
 with various ‘Legal Tech’ applications being used to model litigation risk
 \, and data analytics informing decisions on issues with relevance to law\
 , which include probation\, predictive policing and credit evaluation. The
  next step\, already being trialled in a number of jurisdictions\, will be
  the use of ML to replicate core functions of legal systems\, including ad
 judication.\n\nThis paper considers the likely consequences of this step u
 sing a systemic-evolutionary model of law. From this point of view\, many 
 aspects of legal reasoning have algorithmic features that could lend thems
 elves to automation. However\, an evolutionary perspective also points to 
 features of legal reasoning which are not consistent with ML: these includ
 e the reflexivity of legal knowledge and the incompleteness of legal rules
  at the point where they encounter the ‘chaotic’ and unstructured data gen
 erated by other social sub-systems. We will illustrate this point with an 
 example taken from labour law concerning the classification of work relati
 onships.\n\nThe argument here is that the goal of a ‘legal singularity’—a 
 concept advanced by proponents of the use of ML in law—is based on a conce
 ption of a functionally complete legal system which\, while a mirage\, has
  the potential to divert resources to ultimately fruitless uses\, while co
 mpromising the autonomy of the legal system and undermining its core modes
  of operation.\n\nFinding the institutional means to maintain law’s system
 -boundary with technology is an urgent task\, but one whose success cannot
  be guaranteed\, as there is no principle of societal organisation which g
 uarantees the perpetuation of the rule of law\, and the democratic-liberal
  order it maintains\, in the face of current technological changes.\n\nAbo
 ut the Speaker\n\nDr Christopher Markou is a Leverhulme Early Career Fello
 w and Lecturer at the Faculty of Law\, University of Cambridge\, director 
 of the AI\, Law & Society LLM at the School of Law\, King’s College London
 \, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (RSA). He has written wid
 ely on matters of law/technology and his work has featured in Scientific A
 merican\, Newsweek\, and Wired among others. As part of his commitment to 
 public engagement and education Christopher has been a featured speaker at
  the Cheltenham Science Festival\, Cambridge Festival of Ideas\, Ted Talks
 \, and Hay Festival\, among others. In 2020\, he will publish Is Law Compu
 table? Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence (co-edited
  with Professor Simon Deakin) and his monograph Lex Ex Machina: From Rule 
 of Law to Legal Singularity.\n\nAI and the Law Series\n\nThe AI and the La
 w Series is brought to you by the Montreal Cyberjustice Laboratory\; the M
 cGill Student Collective on Technology and Law\; the Private Justice and t
 he Rule of Law Research Group\; the McGill Centre for Intellectual Propert
 y Policy\; and the Autonomy Through Cyberjustice Technologies Project.\n\n
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LOCATION:Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Ex Machina Lex: The Limits of Law's Computability
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/event/cancelled-ex-machina-lex-limit
 s-laws-computability-320894
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