AI, Law and Access to Justice Festival

Three days of seminars, roundtables and a hackathon at Surrey Law School on how AI is changing the law, legal practice and access to justice.

Surrey Law School's AI, Law and Access to Justice Festival brought together academics, practitioners and civil society organisations from 1 to 3 July 2025 to discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping the law, the legal profession and access to justice.

Sessions covered large language models in legal reasoning, intellectual property rights for AI-generated output, AI and environmental governance, global digital powers and regulation, privacy law, the human rights of older persons, liability when AI causes harm, and how AI is changing dispute resolution and the future of the legal profession. Speakers included Prof Ryan Abbott, Dr Feja Lesniewska, Dr Carla Bonina and Dr Mikołaj Barczentewicz from the University of Surrey, Jacob Turner of Fountain Court Chambers with Michael Workman of the Law Commission, Prof Felix Steffek of the University of Cambridge and Dr Caroline Green of the University of Oxford. Greg Baker of Linklaters led a hackathon with Bryter on AI solutions for local access-to-justice organisations.

The full programme, with session descriptions and speaker biographies, is in the festival flyer (PDF, 1.8 MB).