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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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Law Meets Engineering: Using AI to Increase Access to Justice
PhD candidate Hannes Westermann will present JusticeBot, an online platform that aims to improve public access to justice using AI
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Hannes Westermann
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This event is free
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Online
Concordia University Jurist-in-Residence, Morton S. Minc, cordially invites you to an evening in conversation with Hannes Westermann, PhD candidate in the field of artificial intelligence and law at the Université de Montréal.
Students, faculty members and staff in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, lawyers, and the general public are invited to attend.
The speaker will cover the following topics:
- What is access to justice? Why should we increase access to justice?
- What is artificial intelligence?
- What are the capabilities and limits of current AI systems?
- Why should we use artificial intelligence to increase access to justice?
- Which steps do judges use to solve legal disputes?
- Which of these steps can be automated? To which extent?
- How is AI used to increase access to justice in the JusticeBot project?
This event will be held virtually on Zoom.
To participating lawyers: Verification of the admissibility of this lecture has been submitted to the Bar of Quebec.
About Hannes Westermann
Hannes Westermann is a PhD candidate in the field of artificial intelligence and law at the Université de Montréal. He works at the Cyberjustice Laboratory and is the lead researcher of the JusticeBot project. JusticeBot is an online platform that aims to improve public access to justice through the use of artificial intelligence. Since launching in July 2021, JusticeBot has been accessed by over 7,000 users. Hannes has published and presented his research at multiple international conferences, including the “International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL)” 2019 and 2021, and the “International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX)” 2019 and 2020, where his work was given the Best Paper Award.