AI & Law: Legal Doctrines And AI

Ascertaining how AI will “learn” legal doctrines

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• The law consists of numerous and vital legal doctrines that are invented rules-of-law
• One well-known instance was first derived via a court case of the wagon and the donkey
• AI is anticipated to gradually and inexorably become adept at AI-based legal reasoning
• An unresolved question entails how such AI systems will be imbued with law doctrines
• By exploring the doctrine rising the wagon and donkey we can gauge Machine Learning (ML)

Introduction

There is a quite legendary court case that entails a wagon and a donkey, dating back to 1842 and become a foundation for a legal doctrine that was eventually transferred from English law into American law. This law-expanding case involved a horse-drawn wagon that rammed into and sadly overran a donkey.

Can you name the case?