IT and The Law – A healthy marriage prospect?
The Law and AI: Why Africa Should Watch EU Legislation Closely
October 29, 2024Decoding IT Acronyms: Unraveling the langauage of Tech
November 26, 2024
IT AND THE LAW – A HEALTHY MARRIAGE PROSPECT?
Thank you for those who have, so far, been following our weekly column. We would love to hear from our readers and so set up a better interactive, two-way relationship. Do you have any questions arising out of these two fields – sometimes rubbing shoulders in a less than friendly way? Please make use of this forum. Although not qualifying as full-blooded legal advice (the attorneys and advocates would not like competition in this regard!), we hope to introduce a few juicy topics that should set your thinking machinery in motion!
One perennial question to which I would personally love to have an authoritative answer, is the following. What should we call this legal field? After writing two editions of Computers and the Law (the first one published in 1986 by Juta’s), I realised that the machine sitting on my desk was not really all that this was about! Accordingly, I named the next three editions Information and Communications Technology Law (or ICT Law, for short), the last one appearing in 2021 and published by LexisNexis (see my CV in another part of this set of web pages for full details).
Wow! Thirty-five years of concentrating on these wonderful machines! My interest has now been sparked anew by the arrival of the new child on the block, Artificial Intelligence, and its setting of a myriad of problems for an ancient legal system, thousands of years in the making. Any ideas what I could call a new book that deals with the interface between “AI and the Law”? Somehow, the last-mentioned phrase simply does not sound impressive enough. I have, in the meantime, written two articles on this interesting interface (again, see my CV in another part of this set of web pages for full details concerning these).
Thank you for following this week’s contribution – I promise faithfully to read any response from potential readers and not to criticise or to belittle in any way!
Come and join the conversation
2 Comments
Dear Jorina,
I must admit that I am a bit confused.
I have not come across any of your published works previously, and that I believe the author of both editions of Computers and the Law in 1986 and 2000, and the three editions of ICT-Law up to 2021, was Dana van der Merwe.
However, it is an interesting point you raise regarding what to call the interface between Artificial Intelligence and the Law, as the former can surely learn from the latter (including machine-learning), and vice versa!
Thank you for bringing out this discussion for further analysis and debate.
Dear Dante
Thank you for your comment.
The blog is authored by Prof. Dana Van der Merwe (refer to an earlier post for his credentials). CONDYN, in collaboration with Prof. Van der Merwe, has launched this platform to provide valuable insights and knowledge on the intersection of law and information technology, benefiting readers like you.
I trust that this bring clarity to your confusion.
Stay tuned
Jorina van Rensburg
CEO