The Rule of Law or the Rule of Robots? Nationally Representative Survey Evidence from Kenya

27 Pages Posted: 21 Jun 2024

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Brian Flanagan

National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law

Guilherme Almeida

Insper

Daniel Chen

University of Toulouse Capitole - Toulouse School of Economics

Angela Gitahi

McGill University

Date Written: June 14, 2024

Abstract

With AI now passing the bar, and with court caseloads worldwide hampering access to justice, there are calls for judges to make use of chatbots to help expedite their work of legal interpretation. Such calls pose an empirical question of the practical difference such a reform might be expected to make. They also pose a normative question: whether judicial reliance on

Keywords: AI, Legal Reasoning, Experimental Jurisprudence, LLM, Rule of Law, Robot Judges

Suggested Citation

Flanagan, Brian and Almeida, Guilherme and Chen, Daniel and Gitahi, Angela, The Rule of Law or the Rule of Robots? Nationally Representative Survey Evidence from Kenya (June 14, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4865782 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4865782

Brian Flanagan (Contact Author)

National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law ( email )

Maynooth, County Kildare
Ireland

Guilherme Almeida

Insper ( email )

R Quata 300
Sao Paulo, 04542-030
Brazil

Daniel Chen

University of Toulouse Capitole - Toulouse School of Economics ( email )

Toulouse
France

Angela Gitahi

McGill University ( email )

1001 Sherbrooke St. W
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1G5
Canada

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