Скачать или смотреть Dr J Yuvaraj 'The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI Use in Legal Practice'

Artificial intelligence promises much in the administration of the law, for lawyers, judges, and legislators. Is this promise real or illusory? In this seminar, Dr Joshua Yuvaraj (Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Auckland) examines the phenomenon of automating the administration of law from consequentialist and deontological grounds. He first presents the verification-value paradox, a framework for evaluating the efficiency gains promised by generative and agentic AI tools for legal practice grounded in AI’s structural features and the obligations of lawyers. He then builds on this consequentialist critique to develop a broader theory: that the administration of the law is an exercise of cognitive relationality which cannot be supplanted by automation, despite rapid and projected advances. He concludes with implications for the legal profession, the judiciary and Parliament considering integrating AI tools into their workflows.

This presentation builds on Dr Yuvaraj’s forthcoming Monash University Law Review paper, ’The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI Use in Legal Practice’ (vol 52, 2026), available now on SSRN and ArXiv.

Dr Joshua Yuvaraj is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School. He has a PhD and a BA/LLB (Hons) from Monash University, where he won the Mollie Holman Medal for best Law thesis in 2021. Joshua's research interests include copyright, technology regulation and privacy, using doctrinal and empirical research methods. He is especially interested in exploring tensions between new artificial intelligence technologies and existing frameworks of intellectual property law. He is open to research collaborations and honours/postgraduate research supervision in these fields.

This Monash Law faculty seminar is presented in partnership with the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS).