Kick-off event of the Würzburg Legal Data Science Forum

Conference on the technology and regulation of legal agents

For a long time, legal informatics was considered a niche subject. This has changed fundamentally in the course of the further development of artificial intelligence. Large language models have the potential to fundamentally change legal research as well as the interpretation and application of the law. The prerequisite for this is the transfer of central building blocks of traditional legal work into agent-based systems. Such systems can independently perform tasks such as fact-finding, the identification and interpretation of relevant legal norms and subsumption.

At the interface between legal theory and legal informatics , the challenge arises of understanding jurisprudence as a form of data science. Legal text genres - such as judgements or legal commentaries - must be analysed in terms of their internal logic and prepared in such a way that they can be processed by large language models.

From a normative perspective, the question arises as to which legal requirements must be observed for the use of such systems in legal practice.

The kick-off event of the Würzburg Legal Data Science Forum on the topic "Rebirth of Legal Informatics: Technology and Regulation of Legal Agents" will address three central topics of this research context.

The first topic "Legal Data Science" looks back on the development and problems of legal informatics and illuminates the potential associated with the research perspective of legal data science.

The second thematic complex is dedicated to two central fundamental questions of agentic legal work. This includes understanding legal texts as a source of data and developing strategies for dealing with the bias of generative AI.

The third topic analyses the use of AI agents in the judiciary both in terms of its admissibility de lege lata and possible regulatory design options de lege ferenda.

Registration

Participation in the conference is free of charge, please register here.

Further information can be found in the conference flyer.