Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, we have seen an explosion of interest in applying artificial intelligence to help solve the biggest challenges in law. More recently, we have started to see new innovations aimed at helping ordinary people with their most critical needs.

We invite legal technologists, researchers, and practitioners to join us in Turin, Italy on December 9th for a full-day, hybrid workshop on innovations in AI for helping close the access to justice gap: the majority of legal problems that go unsolved around the world because potential litigants lack the time, money, or ability to participate in court processes to solve their problems.

The workshop will focus on three topics: 

• Data issues related to access to justice (building reusable, sharable datasets for research)

• AI for access to justice generally

• AI for dispute resolution

What is the access to justice gap?

Around the world, up to 5 billion people have unmet legal needs. This number represents the access to justice gap. The needs range from survivors of domestic violence, people navigating custody or the right to make basic decisions about their own wellbeing, to people facing eviction from their home, to others dealing with unfair treatment in accessing basic government services.

Approaches to close the access to justice gap range from offering direct legal representation to self-help and DIY solutions that can help individuals at scale.

Who

The workshop will involve the collaboration of the Suffolk LIT Lab, the Stanford Legal Design Lab, the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab, Libra.law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Swansea University, and the University of Turin, and will be part of the larger Jurix 2025 conference hosted there in Italy.