Artificial Intelligence In Legal Systems: Judicial Application, Ethical Dilemmas, And The Pursuit Of Regulatory Certainty
- IJLLR Journal
- Apr 27
- 2 min read
Aarsh Dwivedi, BALLB (Hons.), Christ University, Pune, Lavasa
ABSTRACT
The paper will look upon the development, adoption, and governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within international laws with a special focus on how it has become a transformative technology in aiding to the efficiency, uniformity, and access to justice through legal courts. It focuses on the judiciary in India and uses comparative examples of the jurisdictions in the United States, the European Union, and China to explain the ways AI used ethically and with regulation can mitigate systemic inefficiencies e.g., case backlog, procedural delays, etc. It forms technological authorities of AI featuring natural language processing, predictive analytics, and expert systems, and evaluates how they have developed within court administration and adjudication. It reviews actual applications, including AI-aided legal research (SUPACE in India), predictive sentencing algorithms (COMPAS in the U.S.), and smart courts in China, through a comparative, case-study method. The analysis in this paper will also highlight the advantages of AI to speed up the justice process and enhance consistency of decision-making, as well as points to underlying risks. Among the main ethical and human rights issues identified in the paper, there are algorithmic bias, lack of transparency (the black box problem), lack of accountability, and privacy issues. It emphasizes the fact that judicial AI should be heavily controlled by humans to be fair and trusted by the population. Moreover, it examines major regulatory and governance frameworks including the proposed AI Act of the EU, AI Ethics Recommendations of UNESCO, and the NITI Aayog AI strategy of India exposing their inability to balance innovation and accountability. It will further reveal, that although the technology can be used to improve the efficiency of the legal system and access to justice, the legitimacy of the technology should be determined by the normative and ethical correspondence with the rule of law. In line with this, it presents adaptive regulation, human supervision as a prerequisite, and disclosed algorithm design to make sure that AI reinforces and not replaces judicial integrity. The paper in its conclusion shows that responsible regulation can bring the promise of AI to the court system, which will be a very important point of intersection bet Patani Boladeko so this citation can show Oscilla my name is Oscar ween technology and ethics and pursuit of justice in the digital era.
