Liquid Legal - Sustaining the Rule of Law

This book is a comprehensive guide for legal, business, and technology professionals seeking to understand the intersection of sustainability and emerging technologies in the legal ecosystem. The book takes a critical look at the role of AI and cloud technologies in promoting sustainable legal practices and addresses the potential risks and ethical considerations associated with these technologies. The book explores the concept of sustainability in a legal context, highlighting the need for the legal system to sustain itself in order to sustain society at large. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, from the use of generative AI and open legal data to promote access to justice, to the codification of corporate cultural intelligence to mitigate risks associated with AI. The book also addresses the potential dark side of AI in the legal market, including the risks of autonomy, liability, legal, and ethical issues that arise when using AI in legal decision-making processes. The authors explore the need for sustainable digital transformation as a prerequisite for sustainable law, highlighting the importance of understanding the ethical and legal implications of AI in the legal system.

The Reset Moment by Mark A. Cohen and Dierk Schindler. - Can Artificial Intelligence Save the Rule of Law? by Thomas D. Barton. - Towards Access to Justice through Generative AI and Open Legal Data: Between Utopia and Dystopia by Marcel Hajd. - OLRAS: Closing the E-Justice Gap Faced By Lawyer-less Micro-Entities When They Are Negotiating Commercial Contracts Against Larger Lawyered-Up Parties by Stuart Weinstein. - AI in the Legal Market: The Dark Side of the Moon by Bruno Mascello. - Digital Twins of Law. Embracing Complexity by Anita Lamprecht. - Codifying Corporate Cultural Intelligence to Mitigate Culture Risk in AI: UK Insurance as a Case in Point by Shân M. Millie and Tatiana Caldas-Löttiger. - Decoding Public and Private AI Legal Tech: Autonomy, Liability, Legal and Ethical Risks by Erion Murati. - Evaluating how the AI Act affects Systems in the Pharma and BioTech Sector by Marco Rau, Sharon Naomi Reichl and Robert Müller. - If a Machine, a Terminator, Can Learn the Value of Human Life, Maybe We Can too by Barbara Chomika. - AI Is Here. But Is the Legal Profession Ready for It? by Ulf Marhenke. - Sustainable Digital Transformation as a Pre-requisite for Sustainable Law by Bernhard Waltl. - Legal Prompt Engineering and How It Will Change the Way Lawyers Work by Philipp Müller-Peltzer, Valentin Tanczik and Alexander Holz. - The (Re)making of a Modern Lawyer an In-house Counsel s Reinvention Journey by Robert Dilworth.