Legal Artificial Intelligence as a tool to promote access to Law and basic legal services

Abstract

Access to law and basic legal services constitutes a fundamental requirement of Rule of Law. The development of legal artificial intelligence apps providing better information and understanding of the Law applicable in each particular situation has blurred, even eliminating in some fields of legal practice, the distinction between “legal information” and “legal advice”. So, the combination of legal artificial intelligence, cloud computing and ICTs to produce “customised” legal knowledge and distribute it massively through the network is generating disruptive ways of legal service delivery that can help fill hitherto unattended pockets of basic legal needs. This requires, however, a new regulatory approach to legal services.