A paper by Melissa Hamilton argues judges should act as gatekeepers for AI risk assessment tools used in sentencing.
Read more: AI sentencing tools need to be closely scrutinised, says new studyHub members took part in the FT Innovative Lawyers Global Legal Hackathon 2020 as the 'Opening Up After Lock Down' (O.U.A.L.D.) team, presenting an application to help organisations reopen after lockdown.
Read more: Hub team submission to the FT Global Legal HackathonRyan Abbott appeared in a Thomson Reuters video on the law and AI-generated works, and the School of Law celebrated the outreach.
Read more: Should AI-generated works be protected as intellectual property?The University of Surrey announced the creation of the Surrey Law and Technology Hub as a School of Law initiative.
Read more: New Surrey Law and Technology Hub!A team led by Ryan Abbott filed the first patent applications for inventions created autonomously by an AI (DABUS), with no human inventor.
Read more: World first patent applications filed for inventions generated solely by artificial intelligenceMarton Ribary received Surrey's first Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the School of Law to study how law can be captured in machine-readable form.
Read more: First Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for School of Law explores sustainable methods of legal AI