AI & Law: Legal APIs
by Dr. Lance B. Eliot
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Key briefing points about this article:
- Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have been in the news recently
- SCOTUS handed down a ruling in the decade-long case of Google vs. Oracle
- Rather than focusing on the decision, let’s consider API’s all told
- APIs are essential to the future of LegalTech
- And APIs will also be crucial to the advancement of AI and the law
Introduction
API’s have gotten their moment in the sun, as it were.
Hard to believe that the topic of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) managed to get worldwide attention, but it did. This rather nerdy topic garnered some bold and brash headlines recently when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the infamous case of Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. (№18–965, decided on April 5, 2021), which pertained to the use of the arcane and ostensibly vaunted Application Programming Interface matter.
