Legal Design and Artificial Intelligence

New perspectives for the future of law

Abstract

Legal Design and artificial intelligence are tools at the service of law that have the intrinsic ability to maximize comprehensibility, usability - and therefore accessibility - and efficiency. Legal Design is a design approach that aims to make the law more understandable and accessible for users, through the simplification of the language, the creation of intuitive user interfaces and the design of user-centered legal processes. The traditional dimension of law, often seen as complex and inaccessible for non-experts, evolves into a simpler, more intuitive one in which the regulatory text becomes a "user–friendly”. Artificial Intelligence is a set of technologies that allow systems to learn and make decisions autonomously, using machine learning algorithms and data. AI is used in law to automate contracts, dispute resolution and regulatory compliance, through data analysis, automatic generation of documents and prediction of the results of legal cases. Legal design and AI can improve efficiency and accuracy
in juridical processes, while the latter also presents ethical and legal challenges, above all with reference to transparency in decision-making and the "responsibility" profiles of the systems. The practical implications are many, just think of an artificial intelligence software capable, thanks to self-learning and deep learning algorithms, of generating a simplified contract that uses understandable language and captivating graphics, so that it is easier for customers to understand their rights and duties. Two approaches that together can make the law accessible and justice itself efficient.