Tomorrow (25th June, 2024) in Budapest, Professor Mireille Hilderbrandt will deliver a keynote on 'The Future of Legal Method. A New Hermeneutics for Computational Law', at the Conference of the Society of Internet Platforms.
Full details on the conference and agenda can be found here https://sipconf.uni-nke.hu/agenda-2024/.
Abstract of the keynote:
The Future of Legal Method. A New Hermeneutics for Computational Law
In this talk Mireille will present a methodology to identify, map, compare and assess legal technologies that introduce AI (in the broad sense) in legal practice.
Mireille will propose that the concept of interpretation must be reinvented in the context of
- computer programmes that define access to the sources of law (legal search platforms),
- computational models claimed to predict case outcome and
- programming languages deployed to encode legislation in executable code.
The multi-interpretability of text is key to the contestability that is, in turn, key to the Rule of Law. We cannot take for granted that data- and/or code-driven technologies will share such multi-interpretability and need to rethink legal method in the context of legal technologies that may otherwise restrict the open texture of the law, closing the gap between legislation, implementation and adjudication that defines the Rule of Law.