The Cambridge Handbook of Lawyering in the Digital Age

Description

With increasing digitalization and the evolution of artificial intelligence, the legal profession is on the verge of being transformed by technology (legal tech). This handbook examines these developments and the changing legal landscape by providing perspectives from multiple interested parties, including practitioners, academics, and legal tech companies from different legal systems. Scrutinizing the real implications posed by legal tech, the book advocates for an unbiased, cautious approach for the engagement of technology in legal practice. It also carefully addresses the core question of how to balance fears of industry takeover by technology with the potential for using legal tech to expand services and create value for clients. Together, the chapters develop a framework for analyzing the costs and benefits of new technologies before they are implemented in legal practice. This interdisciplinary collection features contributions from lawyers, social scientists, institutional officials, technologists, and current developers of e-law platforms and services.

Larry A. DiMatteo is the Huber Hurst Professor of Contract Law at the Warrington College of Business and Levin College of Law, University of Florida. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the American Business Law Journal, a 2012 Fulbright Professor, and author of fourteen books. His most recent publications include The Cambridge Handbook of Smart Contracts, Blockchain Technology and Digital Platforms (with Michel Cannarsa and Cristina Poncibo, Cambridge, 2019) and The Cambridge Handbook of Judicial Control of Arbitral Awards (with Marta Infantino and Nathalie M-P Potin, Cambridge, 2021). Andre Janssen is a chair professor at Radboud University, The Netherlands. He has held previous positions at multiple international institutions, including the Universities of Munster, Oxford, Turin, and the City University of Hong Kong. Professor Janssen is also a member of several international research networks and has published more than 130 books and articles in the fields of private, European, comparative and international sales law, and artificial intelligence and law. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the European Review of Private Law (ERPL) and is a member of the editorial board of the International Arbitration Law Review (IALR). Pietro Ortolani is Professor of Digital Conflict Resolution at Radboud University, The Netherlands. Before joining Radboud University, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law and a Law Research Associate at Queen Mary, University of London. In 2016, Pietro won the James Crawford Prize. He has also contributed to a European Parliament Study concerning the legal instruments and practice of arbitration in the EU. Francisco de Elizalde is the Chair of Legal Studies at IE Law School, IE University (Spain). He focuses on Comparative Private Law, especially Contracts and the Law of Property. He is a Visiting Professor at Koc University (Turkey) and has lectured at the City University of Hong Kong and FGV Sao Paulo (Brazil). He is a member of the Madrid Bar Association, the American Society of Comparative Law and the European Law Institute. Professor Elizalde is also the head of the EU-financed Jean Monnet Module 'Liability of Robots: a European Vision for a New Legal Regime'. Michel Cannarsa is Professor and Dean of Law at UCLy. His areas of research include product liability, law of new technologies, comparative law, consumer law and law of obligations. He has published recent books and articles on the interaction between law and technology, contract law and products liability law. Mateja Durovic is a Reader in Contract and Commercial Law and Deputy Director of the Centre for Technology, Ethics, Law and Society at King's College London. He had held previous positions at the City University of Hong Kong, the EUI, Italy, Stanford Law School, USA, and the Max Planck Institute of Private International and Comparative Law, Hamburg, Germany.