A world where artificial intelligence (AI) is used in courtrooms to rule on cases and in law firms to predict trial outcomes may seem like a science fiction novel to most, but work done by a researcher in Edmonton may be turning that fiction into a reality.

Randy Goebel, a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta, has been developing a computer program that has legal reasoning skills and is able to pass the Japanese bar exam.

Goebel, who specializes in AI, was working at the University of Tokyo when he was inspired to turn his AI work over to the field of law. One of his colleagues at the university, Ken Satoh, decided to get a law degree to understand the law well enough to be able to build a computer system that could comprehend legal reasoning.

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