Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession: Michael Legg and Felicity Bell, Oxford: Hart, 2020, 408pp, £75.00

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a topic of increasing interest and concern for lawyers, academics, public authorities, and the public alike. Stories about AI, machine learning, and algorithmic decision making are now commonplace in media and policy, reflecting a very real transformation in decision-making practices by both public authorities and private organisations. An increasingly rich interdisciplinary literature has developed around these changes – filled with criticism and concerns about decision making related to automation bias, transparency, discrimination and fairness, and failure to ensure accountability – and has also given rise to new research strands and conferences that aim to tackle these problems in the interdisciplinary ways.