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Artificial Intelligence in Law and Legal Research: Capability, Practice, And The Limits of Delegation
Subject area: Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities · Area of research: Law
Abstract
Every profession that trades in information eventually has to reckon with a machine that reads faster than its practitioners. Law is having that reckoning now. For a discipline built on precedent, citation and the patient accumulation of authority, the arrival of large language models capable of drafting a memorandum, summarising a five-hundred-page case file, or translating a judgment into Odia in seconds is not a minor efficiency gain. It is a change in the unit of labour itself. This report takes stock of where that change actually stands in mid-2026 — not the speculative version of AI-in-law that circulated a few years ago, but the version now sitting inside law firms, legal research platforms, and, notably, the Indian judiciary itself.
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@article{1720148,
author = {Abhinav Biswal},
title = {Artificial Intelligence in Law and Legal Research: Capability, Practice, And The Limits of Delegation},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2026},
volume = {10},
number = {1},
pages = {4204-4207},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1720148.pdf},
abstract = {Every profession that trades in information eventually has to reckon with a machine that reads faster than its practitioners. Law is having that reckoning now. For a discipline built on precedent, citation and the patient accumulation of authority, the arrival of large language models capable of drafting a memorandum, summarising a five-hundred-page case file, or translating a judgment into Odia in seconds is not a minor efficiency gain. It is a change in the unit of labour itself. This report takes stock of where that change actually stands in mid-2026 — not the speculative version of AI-in-law that circulated a few years ago, but the version now sitting inside law firms, legal research platforms, and, notably, the Indian judiciary itself.},
month = {July},
}