Emerging Legal Informatics Towards Legal Innovation: Current Status and Future Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

In recent years, the legal informatics area has slowly begun to develop as artificial intelligence and its related techniques and technologies expand their reach in the field of law. The legal, computational and data science communities are collaborating to build computational and data-driven innovative legal models to improve and advance all aspects of the existing legal system with the effective use of modern computer technologies such as machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing. In this research paper, the authors - Sugam Sharma, Samia Gamoura, Deva Prasad and Arti Aneja - explore these important factors with the potential to transform the existing approach to jurisprudence into a smart and intelligent legal system utilising automation. Such a justice system could be envisioned, in the near future which would be faster, fairer and economically more feasible, even for the highly marginalized, underprivileged and poor societies in the world.

The use of automation in the rendition of certain articles of the Saudi Commercial Law into English: a post-editing-based comparison of five machine translation systems

“…However, the present paper is distinctive as it compares ve different MT systems' outputs that can work with Arabic texts, namely: Google Translate, PROMT.One, SYSTRAN Translate, Microso Bing and Translate.com in rendering two legal articles, namely: Article 17 and Article 108 from the Saudi Commercial Law into English. is runs in line with the evidently witnessed development in the area of the legal informatics that has been made in the last couple of years (Sharma et al, 2021). e comparison is based on post-editing rather than automatic evaluation as the latter involves a higher error rate as concluded by Koehn (2020) as well as Rossi and Carré (2022).…”

“…As the current research is concerned with legal articles of the Saudi Commercial Law, it is worth pointing out that technology within legal sphere has unequivocally made a noticeable progress in the form of arti cial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing worldwide. e legal informatics, as compared to technological advancements in other elds, such as health and medicine, has undeniably progressed despite the intricate nature of legal systems (Sharma et al, 2021). is with no doubt encourages reliance on MT systems in rendering legal materials from one legal system into another alongside assessing the output quality of such systems to ascertain as to whether or not such MT systems are valid for legal translation.…”

Navigating the Nexus: Legal and Economic Implications of Emerging Tech-nologies

“…Examining legal issues within specific emerging technologies involves a detailed exploration of the unique challenges and complexities inherent in each technological domain (Greenhalgh et al, 2017). For instance, in artificial intelligence (AI), legal concerns encompass transparency and accountability in algorithmic decision-making, potential biases in AI systems, and liability issues arising from AI-driven autonomous systems (Sharma et al, 2021). In biotechnology, ethical and legal considerations revolve around gene editing, bioethics, and the regulation of advanced medical treatments and research methodologies.…”

Enhancing Moroccan legal cases analysis through ontology-based information extraction

“…Despite adhering to a standardized format, the cases in modern standard arabic (MSA) reveal distinctive linguistic features and typically span two to five pages, containing complex structural and linguistic markers that judicial personnel must navigate to understand and find relevant cases quickly. One approach to address this need is to extract legal information from Moroccan legal cases using automated methods [3], [4].…”