AI & Law: Open Court Records And AI

More open access to court records is needed, including for boosting AI in the law

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• There are strident calls for greater open access to court records
• Doing so will provide vital data needed for holistic policy analyses of justice
• Another important use would aid in bolstering the advent of AI in the law
• AI that utilizes Machine Learning requires extensive data to be suitably trained
• Via plentiful access to court data the efforts to devise AI Legal Reasoning would be aided

Introduction

Court records in the United States are not as readily accessible as one might assume. In a sense, there is an abundant amount of friction that prevents a full semblance of openness to court records. Various potential opportunities to better understand our system of justice and proffer modifications or enhancements are presumably being stymied.

There has been an increasing widespread call for enabling greater open access to court records of the…