Technology,
Law Practice
Apr. 16, 2021
How the British Nationality Act unexpectedly spurred AI and the law
You undoubtedly know the famous saying is that we must remember the past to ensure a suitable future. Along those lines, a keystone research paper from the early days of work on AI and the law has received the inaugural Stanford CodeX Prize 2021. Such acknowledgment is meritorious and we can readily still glean vital lessons from the celebrated work.





Lance Eliot
Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.
Here's a fun fact for you and one that has recently gotten some well-deserved new light.
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The British Nationality Act was passed in 1981 and shortly thereafter was used as a means of showcasing the efficacy of using artificial intelligence techniques and technologies, doing so to explore how the at-the-time newly enacted statutory law might be encoded into a computerized logic-based fo...
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