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Lawyers in the Digital Era: Will Artificial Intelligence Replace the Legal Profession?

The 6th International Summer School on Cyber Law has come to a close in Moscow. The event was organized by the HSE International Laboratory for Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law. The school is conducted in English. Young researchers from Austria, Belarus, Germany, Great Britain, India, Mongolia, Spain, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine presented their papers at this annual event.

Participants visited the offices of PwC Legal, IBM, and Yandex, where they discussed topical issues relating to big data and the Internet of Things; legal aspects of artificial intelligence, blockchain and smart contracts; as well as online data distribution regulation. The discussion clubs took on a number of themes, including a complex analysis of IT law in India; cybercrime; the legal regulation of online content; applying EU data protection regulations; copyright for works created by AI; the legal status of online mediators; and the commercialization of technology at education institutions in developing countries. Participants concluded that there is a clear need to reach an appropriate level of personal data protection, to develop legal regulations over the use of smart devices, to elaborate a mechanism to protect civil rights and freedoms in cyber wars, and to continue developing copyright law, which is chronically lagging behind the needs of copyright holders who are fighting piracy.

The issue of robotics and artificial intelligence was one of the most pressing subjects raised. Is a robot a valuable assistant or a complete replacement for a lawyer? Participants agreed that AI is not yet able to drive lawyers out of the market completely. But in the not-too-distant future, lawyers will have to develop a new system of relations and become accustomed to new activities such as creating smart contracts (automated self-executing contracts), written as program code, which will increase the demand for lawyers who are IT literate. The legal profession is undergoing an active transformation at the moment, because breakthrough technology such as big data, cloud services, smart contracts, the Internet of Things and other innovations already confront new challenges for lawyers, and meeting these challenges often urge them to reinvent traditional concepts.

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