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AI & Law: Legal Ecosystem
by Dr. Lance B. Eliot
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Key briefing points about this article:
- Ecosystems are complex and involve complicated intricacies
- Yellowstone National Park provides an exemplar of biological ecosystem complexities
- Analogously, the law and practice of law can be viewed as the legal ecosystem
- When a change is made to one part of the legal ecosystem this can induce cascading impacts
- It will be important for AI to be considered as a novel change across the entire legal ecosystem
Introduction
Biological ecosystems are oftentimes quite complex. Aspects of the ecosystem are intricately linked to other aspects. Making a change to one element can have dramatic cascading impacts.
Let’s utilize an easy-to-grasp example, namely the reintroduction of wolves into the Yellowstone National Park, and then see how this might apply to the law and the practice of law. For those of you that haven’t yet gone there, you really ought to include…
