Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making and International Law

• The question how AI (including machine learning) impacts on law in general, and on international law in particular, has gained more and more traction in recent years. Ensuing debates have mainly homed in on threats and opportunities posed to law by this technology, and remained on a rather abstract level. With this special issue, we wish to add granularity to existing research by narrowing our focus to what we see as a critical area. Our question is how AI-supported decision-making might impact on the formation of international law through custom or treaty interpretation. This allows us to track how technologically induced practice makes its way into domestic law, and, potentially, from there onwards into international law. We base ourselves on the insight that all forms of practice rely, in one way or another, on enabling technologies, and that technological change therefore eo ipso garners changes in practice. Whether these changes are relevant under domestic and international law is what we set out to chart in a number of fields of international law. By selecting assisted and automatic decision-making supported by AI as a technology, we delimit this special issue to those practices that shape the social contract on which our societies rest.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Juridik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Law (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

International Law

AI

automation

automated decision-making

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