Introduction

Research on artificial intelligence (AI) and theory of law explores what challenges and opportunities AI poses to legal method and the theoretical conception of law and legal science.

The pillar functions both as and induvial topic for research and as a collaborator with the other pillars using their findings to address methodological and theoretical topics as well as collaborating with the AI and education pillar on addressing methodological and theoretical needs of the future generations of lawyers.

As a starting point the pillar will focus on the following three topics, however – reflecting both the dynamic nature of the topic and the future inputs from the other pillars – new topics might very well emerge:
 
• Theory Grounded in Practice: Building new theoretical models and evaluating existing ones based on empirical findings from CLAIR’s pillars in material law. 
• Philosophical Innovation: Advancing jurisprudential theory by examining e.g. how AI and robotics challenge foundational concepts like responsibility, causation, and justice. 
• Freestanding Research in Legal Philosophy: Producing scholarship investigating the role of law in a technologically mediated society.