1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Law and Society

Edited By Matilda Arvidsson, Kieran Tranter Copyright 2027
406 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This handbook offers a critical and interdisciplinary analysis of the transformations that artificial intelligence (AI) is generating across law, politics, and society. While much scholarship on AI focuses on ethics, governance, and compliance, this handbook considers broader questions about how AI reshapes legal institutions and knowledge, creates new forms of power and questions of legal... Read more

Introduction

1. Imaginaries: Imagining AI and Normative Order
Diogenes Casas Samper and Kieran Tranter

2. Justice: AI and What is Lost in Datafication
Angela Condello

3. Normativity: AI and Automated Hegemony
Isabella Spano

4. Democracy: AI, Governance and the EU AI Act
Mehmet B. Unver

5. Regulation: Mapping Evolving AI Regulatory Responses
Michael Guihot

6. Territorialisation: AI as ‘War Machine’
Joaquín Santuber, Pablo Hermansen, and Marcos Chilet

7. Legal Education: AI and Enduring Hierarchies
Nicole Landy

8. Judges: AI and Automation of Decision Making at the Courts
Ozan Kamiloglu

9. Administrative Law: AI and Automated Decision-Making
Jennifer Raso

10. Criminal Justice: Predictive AI Beyond Algorithmic Performance
Tatiana Dancy and Monika Zalnieriute

11. Intellectual Property Law: AI, Ownership and Authorship
Pranav Menon

12. International Humanitarian Law: Artificial Intelligence and the Remaking of Warefare
Shiri Krebs

13. Personhood: AI and Commodifying Persons
Talya Deibel

14. More-than-Humans: AI and the Agency, Materiality, and Sociality of All Beings
Joshua C. Gellers

15. Indigenous Cultures: AI, Appropriation and Consent
Ana Georgina Alba-Betancourt and Emanuel Rodríguez-Domínguez

16. Environments: The Entanglement of AI, Ecological Breakdown, and Human Rights Law
Barrie Sander

17. Machine Learning: AI, Algorithmic Arbitrariness, and Legal Decisions 
Taylor Kate Woodcock

18. AI and Biometrics: AI and Biometric Decision-Making
Margaret Warthon

19. Processing Indigenous Data: AI, Past Extractive Logics and Datafied Present
Keakaokawai Varner Hemi and Amanda Turnbull

20. Domestic and Family Violence: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI-Enhanced Digital Responses
Lyndal Sleep

21. Artefacts: Making Digital Artefacts Meaningful for Law and Technology Studies
Terhi Esko, Sofia Heikkonen, Riikka Koulu, and Suvi Sankari

22. Ideology: AI as Efficiency
Michael Guihot

23. Capitalism: AI, Marx and Law
Nicholas Korpela, Lachlan Robb, Michael Guihot, and Kieran Tranter

24. Algorithmic Patriarchy: Law, Gender, and the Reproduction of Power in Artificial Intelligence
Anastasia Karagianni

25. Colonialism: Intergovernmental Bureau for Informatics, Corporate Power and Decolonising AI
André Dao

26. Transnational Governance: AI and Global Value Chains
Jaakko Salminen

27. Security: Securing a Meeting Point of Quantum Computing and AI
Geoff Gordon and Anh Nguyen

Biography

Matilda Arvidsson is Researcher in Sociology of Law and Associate Professor of Law. Lund University.

Kieran Tranter is the Chair of Law, Technology and Future with the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.