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

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