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Pierre Craig en visite au Laboratoire de cyberjustice
This content is not available in the selected language. Mardi 21 juin – Pierre Craig, animateur et journaliste retraité, est venu rencontrer Karim Benyekhlef, directeur du Laboratoire de cyberjustice et titulaire de la Chaire LexUm en information juridique. Ce fut l’occasion pour lui de découvrir le Laboratoire et de discuter de l’accès à la justice, […] Read more
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Lawyers prepare for ‘driverless M&A’ as smart contract era dawns
This content is not available in the selected language. The nation’s top law firms are braced for disruption as “smart contract” technology threatens thousands of legal jobs and lawyers’ role intermediating commercial negotiations and disputes is automated by computers. One of the country’s biggest law firms, Allens, sent a report to its clients on Friday afternoon admitting that lawyers’ business model of profiting from an absence of trust […] Read more
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Le Ministre de la justice de France, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, en visite au Laboratoire de cyberjustice
This content is not available in the selected language. Vendredi 17 juin, Montréal – Le Garde des sceaux français, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, était en visite au Laboratoire de cyberjustice en présence de Karim Benyekhlef, directeur du Laboratoire, de Nicolas Vermeys, directeur adjoint du Laboratoire, de Benoît Moore, Vice-recteur associé de l’Université de Montréal, de France Houle, […] Read more
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The Pitch: Expert judges survey the field
06/16/2016 Karim Benyekhlef
This content is not available in the selected language. The Pitch, the first-ever legal innovation competition hosted by CBA and LegalX is off to a rousing start, with 31 submissions received by midnight on Wednesday. It’s now up to the committee of experts to survey the field and deliver, by June 23, the names of […] Read more
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DLA Piper partners with Kira Systems to leverage artificial intelligence tool for M&A due diligence
This content is not available in the selected language. DLA Piper announced today that it has partnered with Kira Systems to implement an artificial intelligence tool for document review during the due diligence process for M&A transactions. “We believe that this innovative technology will do for corporate transactional work what e-discovery has done for litigation,” […] Read more
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The Cyberjustice Laboratory: today Quebec, tomorrow the world
This content is not available in the selected language. Winner of any prize for the best named institute for the study of technology and the law must be the Cyberjustice Laboratory at the University of Montreal. It also jostles with the other global contenders for leadership in examining the impact of technology on the legal […] Read more
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École d’été 2016 du Laboratoire de cyberjustice
This content is not available in the selected language. Du 13 au 18 juin 2016, le Laboratoire de cyberjustice accueillera étudiants et professionnels lors de son école d’été 2016. L’objectif de cette école d’été est de diffuser l’état actuel des connaissances du Laboratoire, tout en offrant l’opportunité unique aux participants de côtoyer et d’échanger avec […] Read more
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Small Claims and e-Justice - European - European Chamber of Judicial Officers
Pre-program Opening speeches Patrick SANNINO, President, French National Chamber of Bailiffs and European Chamber of Bailiffs Fernando Paulino PEREIRA, Head of Unit « Civil Justice Cooperation», President of the e-Justice group, General secretariat of the Council of the European Union New Small claims European regulation and e-justice Dick HEIMANS, Deputy head of Unit, Head of […] Read more
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Flawed data complicates criminal justice AI
This content is not available in the selected language. Artificial intelligence has the potential to help reform policing and criminal justice practices nationwide, experts say. However, one challenge to deploying widespread artificial intelligence is refining the data to avoid reinforcing historic biases. The White House and the University of Chicago have teamed up with police […] Read more
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Artificial intelligence in law: separating fact from fiction
This content is not available in the selected language. Major law firms are beginning to wake up to the potential of artificial intelligence to modernise their business – but how will AI work in practice? Everybody is talking in grandiose terms about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in law and last month, this talk […] Read more