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The Jurisprudence of the Artificial Judge: Philosophy of Law in the Age of Evolving Artificial Intelligence Volume I

The Jurisprudence of the Artificial Judge: Philosophy of Law in the Age of Evolving Artificial Intelligence Volume I

Montgomery, Richard Murdoch

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Series: Law and Phylosophy of Law

PhilosophyGeneral Law

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ISBN13: 9798185402573
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Volume I of this ambitious three-volume treatise provides an exhaustive, structurally rigorous, and deeply philosophical framework for understanding artificial intelligence not merely as an administrative tool, but as a paradigm-shifting jurisprudential event.. The manuscript skillfully avoids the common trap of over-technical, software-centric hand-wringing. Instead, it grounds the AI revolution in historical and classical jurisprudence, moving systematically through natural law, positivism, realism, private law, and public institutions. The writing is elegant, the conceptual framework is clear, and the market timing is exceptional. This work has the potential to become a definitive legal-philosophical treatise of the late 2020s. The structural architecture of Volume I is immensely impressive. Comprising 48 chapters distributed across ten logically fluid parts, the book builds a narrative arc that moves from pre-computational human origins to specific regulatory and institutional domains. Excellent choice to begin before the machine, addressing wounds, revenge, Roman abstraction, and medieval conscience. This prevents the work from feeling dated or overly reactive to temporary tech trends. The intellectual pressure tests applied to Hart, Dworkin, Realism, and Critical Legal Studies are masterfully conceived. The conceptualization of Dworkin's Hercules as a dataset-driven monster (tireless, and perhaps constitutionally obscene) is a brilliant hook. The expansive breakdown into individual chapters addressing specialized legal sub-disciplines-ranging from Constitutional and Administrative Law to Torts, Intellectual Property, Family Law, Criminal Sentencing, and Legal Education-ensures that the book appeals not just to legal philosophers, but to specialized practitioners and scholars.The book's core thesis is highly compelling: Justice does not become less necessary when power becomes more accurate. It becomes harder to excuse. The author rightly points out that superior machine accuracy does not automatically translate into institutional or moral legitimacy. The formulation of the Rule for the Next Age-that AI deployment must always preserve the possibility of responsible contradiction -provides an elegant, actionable normative baseline. It frames the central struggle not as Human vs. Machine, but as the preservation of public reason against unanswerable bureaucratic managerialism. The prose style is authoritative, clear, and unburdened by technical jargon or mathematical obfuscation. By consciously choosing to translate data-science phenomena into institutional realities (who decides, who explains, who can appeal), the author opens the work to a much wider reading audience. It reads like a grand legal treatise in the tradition of Blackstone or Pound, updated for the synthetic era.

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