Bloomberg Law
Sept. 21, 2015, 9:26 PM UTC

Will Artificial Intelligence Favor Conservative Legal Theorists?

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

If computers replace human lawyers anytime soon, it is more likely to benefit politically conservative legal philosophies, such as the one embraced by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, than liberal philosophies – purely due to idiosyncrasies in the way the dominant technology works, a new paper argues.

That’s one of the ideas put forward in a draft version of “Incomplete Innovation and the Premature Disruption of Legal Services,” written by Brian Sheppard, an associate professor at Seton Hall University School of Law.

“My argument is that if lawyers are going to be replaced by computers ... some of the more conservative [legal] theories may become ...

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