Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics: New Tools for Law Practice in the Digital Age

by Kevin D Ashley

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) and the law is on the cusp of a revolution that began with text analytic programs like IBM's Watson and Debater and the open-source information management architectures on which they are based. Today, new legal applications are beginning to appear and this book - designed to explain computational processes to non-programmers - describes how they will change the practice of law, specifically by connecting computational models of legal reasoning directly with legal text, generating arguments for and against particular outcomes, predicting outcomes and explaining these predictions with reasons that legal professionals will be able to evaluate for themselves. These legal applications will support conceptual legal information retrieval and allow cognitive computing, enabling a collaboration between humans and computers in which each does what it can do best. Anyone interested in how AI is changing the practice of law should read this illuminating work.

450 pages, Paperback

Published July 20, 2017

Reviews

[Shaneka Knight · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the first AI books I engaged with and it has been amazing. Utilising now in work and seeing the value of Kevin D. Ashley so I am grateful.

Many of these AI books really say the same thing so you have to find a way to decipher who is saying what best. I can wholeheardly say every single person will learn a thing or two from this book.

My life is hectic, so who knows when I will have time to read this book again. I did not read it page for page the way you do Frankenstein: The 1818 Text but I would, if I ever have the time read this book page for page.