Artificial Intelligence & Criminal Justice

Event Description

Join us for the launch of Artificial Intelligence & Criminal Justice: Cases and Commentary, a new open-access casebook edited by UBC law professor Benjamin Perrin.

This 500+ page comprehensive resource, published by the Canadian Institute for Legal Information, offers a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the intersection of AI and criminal justice. 

Professor Perrin will give a talk highlighting some of the big topics of interest in the casebook, followed by a Q&A:
• AI governance in Canada, the U.S., and the European Union
• Deepfakes, autonomous vehicles, and autonomous weapon systems
• Predictive policing, facial recognition, probabilistic genotyping DNA and police robots
• Access to justice through generative AI for self-represented litigants
• Professional responsibility and best practices for lawyers working with AI tools
• Judicial guidelines on AI use, risk assessment algorithms, evidentiary challenges, and disclosure practices
• Critical and Indigenous perspectives on AI 
• The future of AI: legal personality, criminal responsibility, and existential risks 

Artificial Intelligence & Criminal Justice blends Canadian and international perspectives and incorporates legislation, caselaw, policy analysis, critical commentary, and multimedia content such as videos and podcasts. It was developed with a team of UBC law students and in collaboration with generative AI tools including ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.

Who Should Attend?
This event is free and open to everyone, including legal professionals, policymakers, researchers, students, and members of the public interested in AI. We hope you can join us!

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For more information, visit www.benjaminperrin.ca

Speaker

Benjamin Perrin is a law professor at the University of British Columbia and national best-selling author. His research and teaching interests include criminal law, artificial intelligence and criminal justice, and constitutional law. 

Ben has served in the Prime Minister’s Office as in-house legal counsel and lead policy advisor on criminal justice and public safety. He was also a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, and advised judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Special Court for Sierra Leone.

He is the author of policy papers, journal articles, and several books, including: Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial (UTP, 2023), Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis (Penguin Random House, 2020), Victim Law: The Law of Victims of Crime in Canada (Thomson Carswell, 2017), and Criminal Law: Canadian Law, Indigenous Laws & Critical Perspectives (CanLII, 2023) – an open-access textbook for law students. His next open-access textbook Artificial Intelligence & Criminal Justice is being published in January 2025.

This is an initiative of the UBC AI & Criminal Justice Initiative. This event has been approved for 1.5 hours of CPD with the Law Society of BC.