“An interesting frontier in the practice, study and development of contract law is automation: to what extent can a machine perform, or replicate, the reasoning that underpins the law of contract? To understand the potential for automation in contract law, one does not need to be a computer scientist or computer programmer. What is required is an ability to think about law as a matter of cognition. We need to analyse what judges and practitioners are actually doing when dealing with contract law problems. And we need to evaluate and test cognitive computing options in terms of automating each process …”
Catterwell, Ryan, Cognition, Automation and the Future of Contract Law (March 10, 2021). Australian Contract Law in the 21st Century (Federation Press 2021).
First posted 2022-04-27 13:00:17
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