AI Goes To Law School—In China
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Legal educators helping future attorneys prepare for 21st century careers are certainly concerned with the influence of technology on the practice of law. But increasingly, legal technology education and research often comes from the United States and isn’t likely to help international law students keep pace.
Peking University Law School is looking to change that. The elite Chinese law school will partner with cloud-based analytics platform Gridsum to introduce a new research center focused on examining potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) within China’s legal system.
This policy was bolstered later in the year by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which launched a three-year plan to promote the development of next generation AI technologies and create a regulatory pathway for the proliferation of AI development.
“We are excited to be at the forefront of China’s legal AI development and to have the opportunity to work in close cooperation with globally renowned legal academic institutions and individuals,” Qi said in a statement. ”The combination of Peking University’s highly experienced legal community and our cutting-edge AI and big data technology will directly benefit the development and application of AI across China’s judicial system as it migrates towards a ‘Smart Court‘ initiative.”
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