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A Story of Two Holy Grails: How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Design and Use of Corporate Insolvency Law
Felix Steffek
Felix Steffek is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. He serves as Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) and holds a JM Keynes Fellowship in Financial Economics. He is Global Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, SGRI Visiting Professor at Singapore Management University, and Senior Member of Newnham College.

The author is grateful for the very helpful comments received at the conference on ‘How AI Will Change the Law’ organized by the University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics, the University of Chicago Law Review, and the Oxford Business Law Blog, in particular from Tony Casey who contributed a formal comment.

This Essay explores the two holy grails of AI and the law: predicting court decisions and predicting contracts. While there is some overlap between the two, because in order to draft contracts one needs to know the law, both issues can be functionally distinguished. These two areas, and their importance in the context of increasing AI development, are explored more deeply within the context of corporate insolvency law.

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Slicing Defamation by Contract
Yonathan Arbel
Yonathan Arbel is an Assistant Professor Law at the University of Alabama.

Slices and Lumps is a recipe book for thinking. Using a deceptively simple analytical framework, the book showcases the power of conceptualizing the world through the prism of “slices” and “lumps.”

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