AI & Law: Burgeoning Laws And Lawyers

Examining growth in the laws and what AI might foretell in the future

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• A recent study estimated how many laws there are today and growth rates over time
• The research results offer vital food-for-thought about the future of the law
• Thinking outside-the-box, ponder the number of lawyers in a past, present, and future sense
• An additional twist for the future will be the advent of AI-enabled legal reasoning systems
• Advances in AI and the law might impact the number of laws and the number of lawyers

Introduction

There is a legendary adage in statistics that correlation does not denote causation.

This is an insidiously simple notion that oftentimes is entirely overlooked. When we hear that one factor is correlated with another factor, it is easily misinterpreted to assume that there must be a cause and effect involved. A favorite such example involves a study that examined the statistical relationship between…