The Master’s Lecture this year is on the hot topic of AI and legal practice. Entitled “Digital Legal Agents and Access to Justice”, it is to be given at 6pm on Wednesday 20 May in the Lecture Theatre at the Inner Temple. There will be tea and coffee from 5.30pm beforehand and a Reception afterwards. Tickets cost £25.00, and you can sign up on the company web-site.
Our lecturer will be Professor Andrew Murray. Prof Murray is Dean of the Law School at LSE and Director of the LSE Law, Technology and Society research group.
An internationally-renowned expert in the law relating to new media and technology, he was invited earlier this year by the Chancellor of the High Court, Sir Colin Birss, to address the annual conference of the Judges of the Business and Property Courts on the limits to the uses of AI in judging.
In 2018/19 Prof Murray was the specialist advisor to the House of Lords Communications Committee inquiry “Regulating in a Digital World”. He gave the 2020 TMC Asser Lecture on the subject of “Law and human agency in the Time of Artificial Intelligence”. More recently he has advised the Government of Saudi Arabia on the new Saudi Ecommerce Law, was a Judge/Reviewer for the 2024 Leibniz Prize (Germany’s most prestigious award for scientific research) and has acted as a reviewer for the German Federal Government’s “Clusters of Excellence” programme.
A member of The Society of Computers and Law, Prof Murray is a visiting professor at the Amsterdam Law and Technology Institute and was a visiting professor in the Ecole de Droit, Sciences Po, Paris in Spring 2015 and at the Paris School of International Affairs in Spring 2017. His ground-breaking textbook Information Technology Law: The Law and Society, published by OUP, is now in its 5th edition.
